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Question How do I find out how much swap and memory is free?

In Solaris 2.6 and 8

How do I find out how much swap and memory is free?

Also how can I see how much memory each process is consuming?

Thanks in advance
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Old 12-30-2003
swap -s and swap -l gives swap space information

/usr/proc/bin/pmap -x PID gives information about the
memory usage of a process

- Finnbarr
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