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From: Darryl Bowler <darrylb@lizard.org>
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Subject: Re: SWAP SPACE
To: randyk@ccsales.com (Randy A. Katz)
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:47:51 +0100 (BST)
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In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970722090618.00b802d0@ccsales.com> from "Randy A. Katz" at "Jul 22, 97 09:06:18 am"
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> Hello,
> 
> I'm getting an out of swap space message in my /var/log/messages file from
> time to time. How do I check how much swap is being used and kind of
> monitor what's using it? Is there a tool?
> 
> Thanx,
> Randy Katz
> 
type pstat -s or pstat -T, or to monitor in a xterm try systat -swap

Regards Darryl

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