swap being used when i have alot of free memory

egold_at_fsa.com
Date: 10/30/03

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    Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:06:55 -0500
    
    

    Im running solaris 8 with the latest patches.
    im running sybase on this machine and when i do a "top" command i see some
    swap being used,

    how can i tell who is using the swap and for what? i want my sybase to run
    only in memory.

    last pid: 13534; load averages: 0.19, 0.31, 0.40
    11:02:47
    77 processes: 76 sleeping, 1 on cpu
    CPU states: 95.9% idle, 3.5% user, 0.7% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
    Memory: 16G real, 10G free, 2872M swap in use, 12G swap free

       PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
     24700 sybase 12 40 0 2421M 2415M sleep 497:51 3.51% dataserver
     24463 sybase 44 3 0 2422M 2416M sleep 874:34 2.90% dataserver
     13533 root 1 5 0 2680K 1784K cpu/10 0:00 0.28% top
     13431 root 4 0 0 5008K 4472K sleep 42:32 0.22% esd
     24699 sybase 12 59 0 2421M 2415M sleep 547:50 0.20% dataserver
     10454 root 4 59 0 10M 9848K sleep 24:56 0.05% esd
     13446 root 1 18 0 7176K 2904K sleep 0:00 0.03% sshd
     13449 root 1 1 0 2576K 2056K sleep 0:00 0.01% bash
      7579 sybase 1 59 0 10M 9728K sleep 4:25 0.00% backupserver
         1 root 1 59 0 856K 384K sleep 4:03 0.00% init
      2523 root 1 3 0 1728K 832K sleep 2:50 0.00% prngd
     29062 sybase 14 59 0 98M 92M sleep 2:42 0.00% dataserver
     11379 root 1 59 0 10M 8800K sleep 2:17 0.00% esd
     13400 root 1 59 0 2760K 2080K sleep 1:24 0.00% esd
      2813 bb 1 0 0 1096K 880K sleep 1:21 0.00% bbrun
       298 root 18 59 0 30M 13M sleep 0:49 0.00% vxsvc
      3028 root 1 1 0 3072K 1536K sleep 0:40 0.00% sshd
       467 root 6 59 0 2704K 1864K sleep 0:29 0.00% vold
      2825 root 9 2 0 3312K 2808K sleep 0:24 0.00% nscd
      2981 root 10 5 0 6080K 2192K sleep 0:17 0.00% edagent
       345 root 1 59 0 2416K 1408K sleep 0:14 0.00% rpcbind
       452 root 1 59 0 1064K 704K sleep 0:14 0.00% utmpd
        21 root 1 59 0 8128K 5536K sleep 0:09 0.00% vxconfigd
      2565 root 1 59 0 2640K 1256K sleep 0:09 0.00% ntpd
       487 root 3 59 0 3720K 1648K sleep 0:04 0.00% nsrexecd
       488 root 3 59 0 3776K 2208K sleep 0:02 0.00% nsrexecd
       369 root 1 0 0 2680K 2016K sleep 0:01 0.00% inetd
       400 root 1 0 0 1976K 1128K sleep 0:01 0.00% cron
     10638 root 1 0 0 1096K 920K sleep 0:01 0.00% sh
      8253 sybase 1 59 0 8936K 8120K sleep 0:01 0.00% backupserver

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