vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

[Chuck Swiger]

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
[ ... ]
>>>>>    31750 vnode pager pageins
>>>>>    15954 vnode pager pageouts
>>
>> It's the vnode pager, not the swap pager.  AIUI, that's mostly paging
>> in and out pages of running binaries (from the image on disk), not
>> moving stuff in and out of swapspace.
> 
> ah, okay ...

Yeah-- it's more common for a system to need more RAM for dynamicly allocated 
content which would be placed into the swapfile then it uses binary executable 
pages, it's possible to go the other way, too.

-- 
-Chuck