More intelligent swap monitoring?

[Jamie Burchell via This is the general mailing list for monit]

Hi



I currently use Monit to alert me if swap usage is over > 20%. This works
most of the time, but I have a particularly stubborn VM currently which
appears to like to add data to swap and then not touch it. Using vmstat
shows there are either no, or maybe the odd non-zero swap in operation and
no swap outs. Is it possible to configure Monit to alert of actual swapping
out rather than swap file usage, or am I barking up the wrong tree?



Thanks in advance!

Jamie