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15 .Nd return swap summary statistics for the system
21 .Fn kvm_getswapinfo "kvm_t *kd" "struct kvm_swap *" "int maxswap" "int flags"
25 function fills an array of
27 structures with swap summary
28 information for each swap device, for up to
31 The number of devices, up to
33 \- 1, is returned. A grand
34 total of all swap devices (including any devices that go beyond
36 \- 1) is returned in one additional array entry. This
37 entry is not counted in the return value.
38 Thus, if you specify a
40 value of 1, the function will typically return the
41 value 0 and the single
43 structure will be filled with
44 the grand total over all swap devices. The grand total is calculated
45 from all available swap devices whether or not you made room
46 for them all in the array.
47 The grand total is returned.
49 The flags argument is currently unused and must be passed as 0.
51 If an error occurs, -1 is returned.
53 Each swap partition and the grand total is summarized in the
55 structure. This structure contains the following fields:
57 .Bl -item -offset indent -compact
59 .Va char ksw_devname[] ;
74 a copy of the swap device flags.
76 This function caches the nlist values for various kernel variables which
77 it reuses in successive calls.
78 You may call the function with
84 If the load average was unobtainable, \-1 is returned; otherwise,
85 the number of swap devices actually retrieved is returned.
87 If the name of the swap device does not fit in the static char buffer
88 in the structure, it is truncated. The buffer is always zero terminated.