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Spotting swap pressure in Linux

LinuxMonitoring & Performancevmstatadvanced

What this snippet does

Sustained non-zero si and so columns mean the machine is swapping and needs more RAM.

Expected output

procs r b   swpd free si so
     1 0      0 421M  0  0

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