On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Tan Jian wrote: | $vmstat 1 3 | procs memory page disk faults cpu | r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr s0 s1 -- -- in sy cs us sy id | | then what swap exactly means and what free means ? The swap column represents the available amount of swap space in KB. The free column represents the amount of available free real (RAM) memory in KB. /dale