Can free swap size be determined from the sysctl information ?
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 09:08:17 UTC
It seems that it should be possible to find free swap size from the sysctl information, but it isn't obvious how to do this. Here are all *swap* entries in the sysctl information: $ sysctl -a | grep swap 0 MD md98 68719441408 512 u 98 s 512 f 0 fs 0 l 68719441408 t vnode file /disk-large1/swap-64GB label z0xfffff8004d862400 [shape=box,label="SWAP\nswap\nr#2"]; <name>swap</name> <file>/disk-large1/swap-64GB</file> vm.swap_enabled: 1 vm.domain.0.stats.unswappable: 0 vm.swap_idle_threshold2: 10 vm.swap_idle_threshold1: 2 vm.swap_idle_enabled: 0 vm.disable_swapspace_pageouts: 0 vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsout: 433264 vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsin: 94457 vm.stats.vm.v_swapout: 65078 vm.stats.vm.v_swapin: 11121 vm.stats.swap.free_completed: 65205 vm.stats.swap.free_deferred: 86103 vm.nswapdev: 1 vm.swap_fragmentation: vm.swap_async_max: 4 vm.swap_maxpages: 48890752 vm.swap_total: 68719439872 vm.swap_reserved: 16267402461184 top(1) shows 775M of free swap out of 64G total. top(1) gets swap information from kvm_getswapinfo(3). Motivation: one Golang-based port needs free swap size information, and I am trying to figure out how to get this information in Golang. Golang has the "sysctl" module. Thanks, Yuri