Re: Results: Zlatko's new vm patch

Michael K Vance (mkv102@psu.edu)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:15:22 -0500


"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:

> > Well, sometimes the system writes to swap before I have used half my
> > memory ( in X ) I view this with wmmon in windowmaker..
>
> Suspect wmmon in that case. If you can show this happening in a trace
> output from "vmstat 1", then I'll start to worry.

wmmon stuffs both swap and physical mem in its "MEM" area, and also has a
listing for "SWP", ie swap. I assume top is still reliable?

m.

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