Plugin Swap

Name:	Swap plugin
Type:	read
Callbacks:	init, read
Status:	supported
FirstVersion:	2.1
Copyright:	2005–2009 Florian octo Forster, 2009 Stefan Völkel, 2009 Manuel Sanmartin
License:	GPLv2
Manpage:	n/a
See also:	List of Plugins

The Swap plugin collects the amount of memory currently written onto hard disk or whatever the system calls “swap”.

Example graph

Dependencies

• Linux
  • /proc-file system
• Solaris
  • swapctl(2) (Solaris version)
• OpenBSD (possibly other *BSDs, too)
  • swapctl(2) (BSD version)
• Mac OS X
  • sysctl(3) and VM_SWAPUSAGE
• FreeBSD
  • kvm_getswapinfo(3)
• AIX
  • libperfstat(3)
• Other
  • libstatgrab