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Operating Systems Solaris Out of swap but RAM available Post 302446069 by JerryHone on Tuesday 17th of August 2010 03:42:48 PM
Old 08-17-2010
Clearly I am misunderstanding!Smilie I thought that RAM was used in preference, and when there wasn't enough available, the OS started swapping memory pages to disk. If this isn't the case, I'd appreciate a one paragraph tutorial on what really happens!
 

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vzcalc(8)							    Containers								 vzcalc(8)

NAME
vzcalc - calculate resource usage of a container SYNOPSIS
vzcalc [-v] CTID DESCRIPTION
This utility displays the share of the host system resources a particular container is using. If the container is running, the current usage is displayed. High utilization values (>100%) mean the system is overloaded (or the container has an invalid configuration). Current Shows the amount of the resources consumed by the container at a given time. Promised Shows the resources soft limit values "promised" for a given container. Max Shows the resources hard limit values "promised" for a given container. If the -v option is specified, the following additional information is also displayed: Low Mem The part of memory residing at lower addresses and directly accessed by the kernel (only makes sense for 32-bit architectures). Total RAM Total memory. Mem+Swap Amount of memory available for applications (both RAM and swap space). Alloc Mem Standard memory allocations made for applications in a container. This is a more "virtual" system resource than RAM or RAM and swap. Num. Proc Number of processes. OPTIONS
-v Display additional information. EXIT STATUS
Normally, the exit status is 0. On error, the exit status is 1. LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2000-2009, Parallels, Inc. Licensed under GNU GPL. OpenVZ 10 Dec 2009 vzcalc(8)
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