Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: aad@stepstone.com (Anthony A. Datri) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: measuring memory utilization (how to tell if I really need more of it) Keywords: SunOS Message-ID: <2871@stpstn.UUCP> Date: 14 Mar 89 14:15:43 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT Lines: 6 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 5 Mar 89 19:13:40 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 198, message 7 of 13 I've perused the man pages for vmstat and pstat several times, but I still can't understand how to measure a machine's memory utilization. Ie., how can I tell when a machine is paging/swapping excessively, and could thus benefit from more memory? Anthony A. Datri @SysAdmin(Stepstone Corporation) aad@stepstone.com stpstn!aad