When I run the command sar -B, the average pageouts per second is different than what is shown by vmstat swap-out column (so).

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Issue

  • I am confused about pageouts on linux;
  • When I run the command sar -B, the average pageouts per second is different than what is shown by vmstat swap-out column (so).

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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