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Information about the usage of the swap areas on your system can be seen using the swap -l command:
path dev swaplo blocks free /dev/swap 1,41 0 128000 88712
blocks shows the total size of a swap area
in 512-byte disk blocks.
free shows the number of blocks on the free list.
The number of unused 512-byte disk blocks in the swap area can be
also be seen under the freeswp heading
using sar -r
(or mpsar -r for SMP):
23:59:44 freemem freeswp 23:59:49 390 88712 23:59:54 335 88720 23:59:59 321 88416You may find that your system runs out of swap space beforeAverage 349 88732
freeswp drops to zero.
This is because the operating system requires
that enough swap space be available for the grown data and stack
regions
of all processes, not just
those process' pages that have actually been swapped or paged out.
To discover the number of 4KB pages
of swappable virtual memory that the
operating system calculates is available, use the
following command within an interactive
crash(ADM)
session:
od -d availsmem
For more information about how you can use crash to investigate memory usage, see ``Monitoring memory allocation''.