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