http://blog.scoutapp.com/ en-us 40 Scout ~ The Blog comments <p><a href="http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90672/ch06s02.html">Swap memory</a> is like pushing your car downhill when it&#8217;s all out of gas. Sure you&#8217;ll keep going, but just not as fast. Oh, and use too much, and you could be in trouble.</p> <p>In our experience, when a significant amount of swap memory is used, our web application performance slows down dramatically. Swap memory is just a lot slower than physical memory.</p> Eric Lindvall has created a nice plugin that profiles a system&#8217;s memory usage, returning the following information: <ul> <li>Swap Total</li> <li>Swap Used</li> <li>% Swap Used</li> <li>Memory Total</li> <li>Memory Used</li> <li>% Memory Used</li> </ul> <p><a href="http://scoutapp.com/plugin_urls/15-memory-profiler">View the Memory Profiler Plugin</a></p> Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:00:00 CDT <a href="/articles/2008/04/17/memory-usage-plugin">Memory Profiler Plugin</a> <a href="/articles/2008/04/17/memory-usage-plugin">Memory Profiler Plugin</a>