How can I find how much memory allocated to a process is swapped out? Or
is the only way to kill the process and see how much swap usage goes down?
I run W2K inside of VMware, and VMware (according to top) is currently
using 162 MB (out of 768 MB). Often, tasks take a long time to start in
VMware (raise a menu, start a process, etc.), but once started, proceed at
normal speed. I think that's because VMware is partially swapped out,
which in turn is because I don't have enough RAM. I suppose I could infer
which "memory" accesses are really swap reads by the time taken for them.
When W2K accesses part of its 600 MB of real (it thinks) RAM, part of that
RAM has been swapped out by the host OS. Had it been swapped out by W2K,
presumably W2K could've optimized things so it acted better.
Should I lower VMware's memory allocation to match what it really gets in
the mean time?
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