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From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: swap space tools
Date: 18 Mar 1996 17:03:19 GMT
Organization: ABWAM, Inc.
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I am running BSDi 2.0 with patches.

I am interested in monitoring how swap space is being used on my system,
so I am watching the system with tools like top and systat.

Top is a nice tool, but what does the 'Real' and 'Virt' entries really
mean?

Systat is nice also, except that when I run systat -swap, I get an error
which says 'swap: cannot find _nswap _nswdev'.  :(  This looks like
the tool I'd like to use to watch how swap space is being used...

Any suggestions of other tools appreciated, or advice on how to fix the 
systat problem!