measuring memory utilization (how to tell if I really need more of it)

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From: Anthony A. Datri
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 14:15

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I've perused the man pages for vmstat and pstat several times, but I still
can't understand how to measure a machine's memory utilization.  Ie., how
can I tell when a machine is paging/swapping excessively, and could thus
benefit from more memory?

Anthony A. Datri @SysAdmin(Stepstone Corporation) aad@stepstone.com stpstn!aad

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Subject: measuring memory utilization (how to tell if I really need more of it)
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