The 'swap' columns ('si', 'so') should almost always stay at zero. If those numbers are high, you are swapping and that will degrade performance dramatically.
Friday, August 03, 2007
vmstat
Using the Unix`vmstat` tool can help you quickly figure out if a machine is using a lot of io wait time swapping memory to disk and back.
The 'swap' columns ('si', 'so') should almost always stay at zero. If those numbers are high, you are swapping and that will degrade performance dramatically.
The 'swap' columns ('si', 'so') should almost always stay at zero. If those numbers are high, you are swapping and that will degrade performance dramatically.
