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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You made me revisit the man pages. Without reading Vernon’s link I think Xymon is correct and ‘top’ is incorrect. Both swap –s and swap –l are correct. I did already know Solaris does some magic foot work with real memory when calculating swap which may be in Vernon’s article but I think I can explain the numbers in the AM. Time for sleep before the babies wake up.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>~David<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jeremy Laidman [mailto:jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:58 PM<br><b>To:</b> Gore, David W (David)<br><b>Cc:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] Solaris 10 swap not showing on memory alert correctly?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 27 June 2013 02:38, Gore, David W (David) <<a href="mailto:david.gore@verizon.com" target="_blank">david.gore@verizon.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Where is it getting the 106M number? Anyone else seen this on Solaris? <o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Yes, same here. It gets the number from the [swaplist] section (from `swap -l`) of your client message, in preference to the [swap] section (from `swap -s`). [Reference: xymond/client/solaris.c, in function handle_solaris_client()]<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>So the real question is, why does "swap -s" and "swap -l" give different results? The man page for swap indicates that "swap -s" includes swap space in the form of physical memory (in addition to swap partitions and files). Physical memory used for swap?! Huh!? I really don't know how the Solaris memory management works!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>J<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>