Thanks to all who responded. The original post and most complete response are attached below, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Larye Parkins. Larye wrote.. swap reports the number of disk blocks, which are, by tradition, 512 bytes, or one disk sector. Not to be confused with file system blocks, which are 8192 bytes (usually). Lots of other utilities (like df without -k) report 512-byte block counts). /var/run is the repository for doors, sockets, process pid numbers, and other ephemera that don't need to persist through a reboot. Since Solaris uses unallocated RAM as part of the swap space, /var/run is, in effect, a RAMdisk for performance purposes. -- Larye D. Parkins Information Engineering Services PMB 435, 610 N. 1st St., Ste 5 Hamilton, MT 59840 406 375 6139 On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 SunAdmi@netscape.net wrote: > Hello managers, > > A question I should probably know the answer to... > > I have a v880, with two controllers running Solaris 9 with 8 gig allocated for swap. Swap -l reports the correct block number; 16780208, format shows 8 gigs, but df -kl shows: > > swap 15310816 40 15310776 1% /var/run > swap 15310776 0 15310776 0% /tmp > > Can someone explain why this is so? While I am at it, another probably stupid question, what is the second /var/run mount for? > > Thanks in advance. > > __________________________________________________________________ Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp Return-Path: <larye@parkins.org> Received: from rly-nc01.mx.aol.com (rly-nc01.mail.aol.com [172.18.151.198]) by air-nc03.mail.aol.com (v99_r4.8) with ESMTP id MAILINNC33-822040c4c86a35b; Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:56:26 -0400 Received: from mail.cybernet1.com (mail.cybernet1.com [207.15.79.93]) by rly-nc01.mx.aol.com (v99_r4.3) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINNC19-66740c4c85274; Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:56:03 -0400 Received: from xavier [63.175.227.41] by mail.cybernet1.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.10) id A868AA1600AA; Mon, 07 Jun 2004 13:56:24 -0600 Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:55:51 -0600 (MDT) From: Larye Parkins <larye@parkins.org> X-Sender: larye@xavier To: SunAdmi@netscape.net Subject: Re: swap size reporting double In-Reply-To: <1C569321.073FB4F7.001A96BD@netscape.net> Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10406071348460.19731-100000@xavier> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Declude-Sender: larye@parkins.org [63.175.227.41] X-Spam-Tests-Failed: HELOBOGUS [5] X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) for spam. X-AOL-IP: 172.18.151.198 swap reports the number of disk blocks, which are, by tradition, 512 bytes, or one disk sector. Not to be confused with file system blocks, which are 8192 bytes (usually). Lots of other utilities (like df without -k) report 512-byte block counts). /var/run is the repository for doors, sockets, process pid numbers, and other ephemera that don't need to persist through a reboot. Since Solaris uses unallocated RAM as part of the swap space, /var/run is, in effect, a RAMdisk for performance purposes. -- Larye D. Parkins Information Engineering Services PMB 435, 610 N. 1st St., Ste 5 Hamilton, MT 59840 406 375 6139 On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 SunAdmi@netscape.net wrote: > Hello managers, > > A question I should probably know the answer to... > > I have a v880, with two controllers running Solaris 9 with 8 gig allocated for swap. Swap -l reports the correct block number; 16780208, format shows 8 gigs, but df -kl shows: > > swap 15310816 40 15310776 1% /var/run > swap 15310776 0 15310776 0% /tmp > > Can someone explain why this is so? While I am at it, another probably stupid question, what is the second /var/run mount for? > > Thanks in advance. > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. > Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register > > Netscape. Just the Net You Need. > > New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer > Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. > Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers > > > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses] _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Jun 7 17:09:18 2004
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