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meaning of swap space available swap -s / vmstat

edited Nov 16, 2010 1:49AM in Oracle Solaris System Administration (MOSC) 4 commentsAnswered
Hello all,
can somebody please explain me the meaning of the output of swap -s / or swap column in vmstat?

I have the following situation on a Solaris 10 system with 64 GB RAM and 2 GB swap.

In the output of swap -s and vmstat below, why is the swap down to 1097096k which is even less than the disk swap space, which is in fact not in use at all?
The man page of swap says under the -s option:
         These numbers include swap  space  from  all  configured
         swap  areas  as  listed  by  the -l option, as well swap
         space in the form of physical memory.

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