Re: Does 'top' work any more on Solaris ???

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:57:39 -0600

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:27:44 +0000, David Kirkby wrote:

> Memory: 4096M real, 2651M free, 517M swap in use, 3627M swap free
>
> I don't know if its true that 517MB of swap is in use. It would seem odd
> when there is plenty of RAM in the system, but perhaps it is true.

How much junk do you have in /tmp?

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