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Date:      Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:49:40 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Edwin de Graaf <graaf@surf.IAE.nl>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   How do I measure swap activity?
Message-ID:  <199807241249.OAA04892@surf.IAE.nl>

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Hello hackers,

I am looking for a good way to measure how much disk activity is caused by
pages being swapped in and out from disk. In the systat -vmstat display
there are two kinds of pagers, the VN pager and the SWAP pager. Do both of
these cause a disk access? What is the difference between the two?

On the other hand I have vmstat which shows the number of page faults, is
this the sum of the VN and SWAP pagers? Does each page fault cause a fixed
block (4096 bytes?) to be read from disk?

Pointers to documents describing these would also be most welcome.

Thanks a lot.

Best regards,
Edwin de Graaf

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