From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 15 11:01:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA13454 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:01:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (dkelly@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA13449 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:01:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id NAA21376; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:01:47 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:01:47 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kelly Message-Id: <199709151801.NAA21376@fly.HiWAAY.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, psd@nev.ml.org Subject: Re: swap Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > How can I see how much swap is used already? Swapon -s doesn't work, and I > don't think vmstat gives me that info (at least not the output of vmstat > as I saw it)... > Does it matter how big your swapdrive is? I have currently a swapdisk of > 50MB, that's enough I think, but does it make the system slower the bigger > the swapslice is? > > -- > Paul Dekkers (psd@nev.ml.org or psd@dds.nl) > N.E.V - Nescio Ergo Valeo PeeCee: {1002} swapinfo Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/sd0s1b 59384 50268 9052 85% Interleaved /dev/sd1s1b 32768 32704 0 100% Interleaved Total 92024 82972 9052 90% PeeCee: {1003} -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) ====================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.