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how to monitor swap space paging activity?

hi guys

My tivoli monitoring tools is reporting the monitor parameters says Pages Paged out is too high 1600 so it is a critical warning (threshold 400)

now according to them this usually happens at dawn so is there a way to monitor this? during the time I am not working?

ans something else I check the system right now and it shows this for swap
basically right now it now swapping at all right? 0K used?

Code:

Mem:   2738708k total,  2648352k used,    90356k free,    45716k buffers
Swap:  2104472k total,        0k used,  2104472k free,  1151904k cached

thanks a lot

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someone guys?

today I found this

Code:

Mem:   2738708k total,  2657356k used,    81352k free,    84828k buffers
Swap:  2104472k total,       32k used,  2104440k free,  1073696k cached

when I should say swap could be affecting my system? is there percentage to or threshold?

---------- Post updated at 05:47 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:45 PM ----------

by the way while top says 32KB swap

I've running vmstat 5

and si so are all zeros

Code:

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- -----cpu------
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 1  0     32  81376  84828 1073696    0    0     0   354  271 1204  2  0 98  0  0
 1  0     32  81732  84828 1073696    0    0     0    91  271 1202  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0     32  81740  84828 1073696    0    0     0    57  278 1185  0  0 99  0  0
 0  0     32  81772  84828 1073696    0    0     0     5  260 1110  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0     32  81772  84828 1073696    0    0     0   251  268 1140  0  0 100  0  0
 1  0     32  81772  84828 1073696    0    0     0     9  261 1118  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0     32  81772  84828 1073696    0    0     0    79  266 1126  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0     32  81896  84828 1073696    0    0     0    10  266 1169  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0     32  81896  84828 1073696    0    0     0    57  277 1262  0  0 99  0  0
 0  0     32  81888  84828 1073696    0    0     0   105  264 1173  0  0 99  0  0
 0  0     32  81880  84828 1073696    0    0     0   118  267 1218  0  0 99  0  0
 0  0     32  81880  84828 1073696    0    0     0    27  260 1143  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0     32  81872  84828 1073696    0    0     0   350  267 1220  1  1 98  0  0
 0  0     32  81748  84828 1073696    0    0     0    25  260 1169  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0     32  81756  84828 1073696    0    0     0    54  275 1252  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0     32  81904  84828 1073696    0    0     0     5  261 1141  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0     32  81888  84828 1073696    0    0     0    98  267 1079  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0     32  81888  84828 1073696    0    0     0    55  264 1029  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0     32  81888  84828 1073696    0    0     0    64  267 1039  0  1 99  0  0
 0  0     32  81888  84828 1073696    0    0     0     9  267 1153  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0     32  82004  84828 1073696    0    0     0    58  280 1282  0  0 99  0  0
 1  0     32  81444  84828 1073696    0    0     0    39  266 1203  1  0 99  0  0
 0  0     32  81484  84828 1073696    0    0     0   122  268 1200  0  0 100  0  0
 1  0     32  81484  84828 1073696    0    0     0     7  263 1145  0  0 100  0  0
 0  0     32  81748  84828 1073696    0    0     0   350  273 1240  1  0 98  0  0

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