difference in swapinfo and glance output

[gkkiran77]

the glance output is

Event Current Cumulative Current Rate Cum Rate High Rate
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Page Faults 163 163 116.4 116.4 116.4
Page In 0 0 0.0 0.0 2.1
Page Out 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
KB Paged In 0kb 0kb 0.0 0.0 0.0
KB Paged Out 0kb 0kb 0.0 0.0 0.0
Reactivations 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Deactivations 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
KB Deactivated 0kb 0kb 0.0 0.0 0.0
VM Reads 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
VM Writes 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total VM : 22.5gb Sys Mem : 3.3gb User Mem: 11.6gb Phys Mem : 16.0gb
Active VM: 16.5gb Buf Cache: 819mb Free Mem: 337mb FileCache: na
MemFS Blk Cnt: 0 MemFS Swp Cnt: 0

and swapinfo -tam is
Mb Mb Mb PCT START/ Mb
TYPE AVAIL USED FREE USED LIMIT RESERVE PRI NAME
dev 16384 2415 13969 15% 0 - 1 /dev/vg00/lvol2
reserve - 13969 -13969
memory 16379 8680 7699 53%
total 32763 25064 7699 77% - 0 -

The memory both the command are showing is different

[Dennis Handly]

The memory line in swapinfo is pseudo-swap, not total physical memory.
But both appear to be 16 Gb.

What HP-UX version are you using?

[gkkiran77]

HP-UX 11.23

[Vijaykumar_1 · Accepted solution]

Its 77% utilized.

total 32763 25064 7699 77% - 0 -

Get us the o/p from the glance,similar to the one (ex.)


CPU Util SSU U | 23% 18% 23%
Disk Util F F | 8% 6% 8%
Mem Util S SU UB B | 84% 84% 84%
Swap Util U UR R | 28% 28% 28%

[gkkiran77]

Glance C.05.00.000 03:34:16 rchunx15 ia64 Current Avg High
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CPU Util S | 1% 5% 17%
Disk Util | 0% 1% 1%
Mem Util S SU UB B | 98% 98% 98%
Swap Util U UR R | 77% 77% 77%

[Vijaykumar_1]

Then here its correct.

Both swapinfo and glance provide the similar info..both are 77%. :)