[GLLUG] Swapin in iotop

[Hearns, John]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 02:48:25PM +0000, Tom Taylor wrote:
> Does anyone know what this metric actually refers to?
> 
> I can see processes showing with a % of SWAPIN on a box that isn't swapping
> anything to disk.
> 
> e.g. http://pastebin.com/gwGU7kCX

I am a bit of an iotop fan too.
How do you know the system is not swapping - are you running it without swap?
($cat -> $pigeons   I quite happily run systems without swap)

Another very useful tool is

Watch  cat /proc/meminfo

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