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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Subject: Re: KVM with hugepages generate huge load with two guests
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 12:03:45 +0400
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02.10.2010 03:50, Dmitry Golubev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for reply. Well, although there is plenty of RAM left (about
> 100MB), some swap space was used during the operation:
> 
> Mem:   8193472k total,  8089788k used,   103684k free,     5768k buffers
> Swap: 11716412k total,    36636k used, 11679776k free,   103112k cached

If you want to see swapping, run vmstat with, say, 5-second interval:
 $ vmstat 5

Amount of swap used is interesting, but amount of swapins/swapouts
per secound is much more so.

JFYI.

/mjt