[Hyperic-hq-discuss] Solaris Swap Space Reporting different than standard TOP

[JeanDagenais2 <sig...@hy...>]

Hello,

I am seeing a difference between the reporting of the SWAP space for the Solaris 10 OS (on sparc and Intel).

I am trying to understand how to interpret the difference.

Thanks,
Jean


This is the output from Top (Swap = 18 GB)

load averages:  1.30,  1.29,  1.29;                    up 75+12:17:08                            06:24:11
197 processes: 192 sleeping, 3 stopped, 2 on cpu
CPU states: 92.5% idle,  6.8% user,  0.8% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 72G phys mem, 42G free mem, 18G total swap, 18G free swap


$ swap -s
total: 24784624k bytes allocated + 46695832k reserved = 71480456k used, 7972284k available



This is the output from Sigar top:

  6:24 AM  up 75 days, 12:17, load average: 1.28, 1.28, 1.29
199 processes: 193 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 4 stopped... 3974 threads
CPU states: 7.1% user, 1.2% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% wait, 91.6% idle
Mem: 75488352K av, 31763656K used, 43724696K free
Swap: 79452960K av, 71482188K used, 7970772K free

$ java -jar sigar.jar    
sigar> free
             total       used       free
Mem:      75488352   31764920   43723432
Swap:     79452776   71481424    7971352
RAM:       73720MB