Trivial swap question

From: Patricio Mora (pmora@cgob.junta-andalucia.es)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 08:32:51 EDT


It must be obvious, but why 'si' and 'so' in vmstat and 'swpin/s' 'swpot/s' in sar are always 0 in a machine I think is swapping heavily, and swap partition shows some activity in iostat?
It's a 450 Sol 2.6, 512 mem 512 swap.

sar -w 5 55

SunOS brenda 5.6 Generic_105181-30 sun4u 04/12/02

14:24:15 swpin/s bswin/s swpot/s bswot/s pswch/s
14:24:20 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 589
14:24:25 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 477
14:24:30 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 591
14:24:35 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 581
14:24:40 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 474
14:24:45 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 690
14:24:50 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 736
14:24:55 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 525

vmstat -S 5 55
 procs memory page disk faults cpu
 r b w swap free si so pi po fr de sr s0 s1 s2 s3 in sy cs us sy id
 0 0 10 15464 15920 0 0 884 34 806 2512 1796 11 2 1 0 816 1142 424 7 1 92
 0 0 8 319832 7928 0 0 2584 195 550 0 473 20 1 0 0 945 364 250 4 1 95
 0 0 8 319824 8816 0 0 1393 297 2272 0 5637 27 4 0 0 1098 684 413 2 1 97
 0 0 8 320072 15096 0 0 705 1 1395 0 7260 32 3 1 1 1062 877 440 2 0 97
 0 0 8 321152 15904 0 0 196 0 163 0 126 10 0 0 0 749 1336 399 2 0 98
 0 0 8 321864 15576 0 0 587 0 524 0 1242 19 2 0 0 866 948 404 4 0 96
 0 1 8 321920 15392 0 0 358 0 344 0 3402 27 9 2 0 962 245 227 0 0 99
 0 0 8 321920 15784 0 0 24 0 84 0 2227 6 0 0 0 668 204 110 0 1 99
 0 0 8 321920 15352 0 0 268 0 62 0 4263 25 5 0 0 862 197 163 0 0 99
 0 5 8 321944 9856 0 0 16254 780 3091 0 12086 64 2 1 11 1496 1281 453 3 5 91
 0 11 8 321640 9616 0 0 24113 846 14350 5768 36705 123 16 0 1 1963 4909 670 5 12 83
 0 10 8 322824 11520 0 0 21872 811 16908 3088 47460 133 19 2 9 2442 6064 932 5 10 85
 0 3 8 323224 15760 0 0 1392 6 1952 1840 9430 68 11 8 68 2025 764 926 1 2 98

iostat -xctnp 5 55 | grep c0t0d0s1
                              extended device statistics
  r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device
  5.5 0.7 43.8 25.5 0.0 0.2 0.0 27.7 0 7 c0t0d0s1
 33.7 24.2 269.4 976.9 0.0 2.1 0.0 35.6 0 60 c0t0d0s1
 26.8 7.4 214.1 423.5 0.0 1.6 0.0 47.1 0 33 c0t0d0s1
 25.8 0.0 206.4 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 10.2 0 25 c0t0d0s1

 Thanks to all

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