After my first summary posted , I got several response . thanks to all.
The truth is after a reboot , all works normal : the 'swap -l' 'free'
doesn't
go to zero .
I think kevin is right, that the device is configured incorrectly, although
I
can't sure. but I can sure is that under normal operation, the 'swap -l'
'free'
should reflect the usage of swap space.
thank everyone again.
likun
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the first summary follows:
So far I got only one reply from Mark Neill who tell me that that's all
right. thanks Neill.
My original question is that on one of my solaris2.6 system the output
of 'swap -l' shows the free column equal to zero. like this:
#swap -l
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/vx/dsk/swapvol 158,5 16 4194272 0
I want to know if this means some swap space shortage .
Neill said that the -l parameter just reports the physical attributes of my
swap
area, 0 free meaning all of the swap space on the partition is available,
while
doesn't necessary means a swap space shortage.
but i am still confused . I did a lab on a solaris 2.5.1 workstation. when
more
processes are running on my workstation , the 'swap -l' 'free' is
decreasing ,
until process forking failing , the 'swap -l' 'free' never get ot zero. And
when
some processes exit , the 'swap -l' 'free' raising again. I think it's
almost
impossible for it to get to zero , and stay there forever .
If anyone have any insight , don't hesitate to mail me.
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