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Old 08-08-2012
Which gives the correct swap space top/vmstat ?
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last pid: 29502;  load avg:  21.8,  20.7,  20.4;       up 8+08:49:09 
763 processes: 589 sleeping, 9 running, 160 zombie, 5 on cpu
CPU states:  0.0% idle, 28.2% user, 71.8% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 32G phys mem, 2042M free mem, 8198M total swap, 8020M free swap

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kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
 r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr m0 m1 m3 m4   in   sy   cs us sy id
 14 0 0 2278240 3160744 560 2312 2664 143 143 0 1 0 0 0 0 1498 2947 3988 34 65 1
 17 0 0 772472 2087800 182 2353 8 0 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  808 30069 3288 24 76 0
 9 0 0 630128 2086600 250 2937 22 0 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  912 25393 3059 22 78 0
 17 0 0 647680 2085688 250 2951 24 0 0 0 0  0  0  0  0  818 28944 2987 22 78 0
 15 0 0 1414032 2084080 305 2937 8 0 0 0 0  0  0  0  0  895 30802 3400 23 77 0

top command gives 8G swap space and vmstat shows 1.3G free

Please help me in understanding this
# 2  
Old 08-09-2012
They aren't measuring the same thing.

Please post the output of swap -s and swap -l commands.
# 3  
Old 08-09-2012
To add to last post. Check following documents for explanations:

  • Interpreting swap -s and swap -l output (Doc ID 1009356.1)
  • How does Solaris Operating System calculate available swap? (Doc ID 1010585.1)
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