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freeswap in sar -r output

edited Feb 28, 2012 8:07AM in Oracle Solaris System Administration (MOSC) 8 commentsAnswered ✓
Hi Everyone,
man page of sar(1) says:
-r Reports unused memory pages and disk blocks:
      freemem      average pages available to user processes.
      freeswap    disk blocks available for page swapping.

But the blocks of freeswap(84559894) are more than the total swap blocks(67120880):

# sar -r -f sa06

SunOS sbtorsvr291 5.10 Generic_144488-17 sun4u    02/06/2012

00:01:06 freemem freeswap
01:00:00 1422120 84559894
02:00:36 1426964 84560296
03:00:52 1415600 84556595

Average  1395279 85103180


# swap -l
swapfile             dev  swaplo blocks   free
/dev/vx/dsk/bootdg/swapvol 275,3002     16 67120880 66796288

How to interpret this dependency?


Thanks,
Alex



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