What is the difference between pageouts (pages paged out) and swapping (pages swapped out)?

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Issue

  • What is the difference between pages paged in or out (pgpgin, pgpgout) and pages swapped in or out (pswpin, pswpout)?
  • What commands can be used to show the pages and swapped counts?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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