Hi , This is my fstab output: [oracle@tanidw1 proc]$ cat /etc/fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/md1 /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 #none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/md2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/dvd udf noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/sdd1 /oracle/quorum ocfs _netdev 0 0 /dev/sde1 /oracle/data01 ocfs _netdev 0 0 /dev/sdf1 /oracle/data02 ocfs _netdev 0 0 according to this /dev/md2 is the swap device. when i monitor the system ny using sar -B which shows paging operations , i see heavy page ins and outs: 08:35:14 AM pgpgin/s pgpgout/s activepg inadtypg inaclnpg inatarpg 08:35:17 AM 54993.00 2242.67 178616 117518 7333 60693 08:35:20 AM 55719.33 2233.33 178616 117518 7333 60693 08:35:23 AM 39684.67 2611.00 178616 117518 7333 60693 08:35:26 AM 60330.00 3418.00 178616 117518 7333 60693 08:35:29 AM 50921.67 3545.67 178621 117518 7333 60694 But i see no io through the swap device: iostat -x /dev/md2 1 avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %idle 119.78 0.02 34.73 869.47 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util md2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 So , what can be the reason for this? Kind Regards, tolga -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list