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What is exactly Virtual Memory in Solaris?

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solaris
August 16, 2011 at 13:26:34
Specs: Linux
Hello, everybody!

I had been reading about "Virtual Memory" and I would like to know what exactly it is in the Solaris -maybe in UNIX- argot. Is it the same of "swap" space usage?

How could I measure the Virtual Memory utilization of a given server?

Thanks in advance!


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#1
August 31, 2011 at 17:04:03
Yes it is. iostat would probably be the utility you should check out to measure performance of a filesystem.

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#2
September 4, 2011 at 07:01:32
Thanks for your answer, sir!

I checked the iostat command (see below) but I can't figure out which field is exactly about Virtual Memory... for example, Virtual Memory Utilization. I looked in the iostat manual but I don't understood it.

Could you give me a hand, please?

$ iostat
tty sd1 sd2 sd4 ssd0 cpu
tin tout kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv us sy wt id
1 19 207 16 205 208 16 238 0 0 3 76 3 4 1 1 0 98


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