-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 09:20:14PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > Looked at the same top info, and I don't understand what I see either. > > With processes running, I'm seeing close to 500mb of stuff swapped out, > > but according to free, only the 2.2 mb is swapped. There's gotta be > > more to this than meets the eye, or something is lying about the swap. > > The system monitor also shows only 2.2mb of swap in use, so where is top > > getting this 500+ mb of swap data from? > > I suspect Kai and Les have hit on it. I first thought it sounded like a > bug, now it may be only a "bug" in documentation not telling it like it > is. > > > <snip sig stuff> > > I'll tell you one theory I had earlier today. What if the summary line > was reporting "pages" swapped? At 4K/page time 160,000 it cam awful > close to matching the total of all the individual entries under the > "SWAP" column. I had though I was onto something. If someone's on an > arch with other than 4K page size, ... > > It was tempting, yes it was. Fortunately, I decided to *ask* rather than > *propose*. So I seem only half as much and idiot as I might have seemed > (I hope)! Both theories sound very plausible to me. But since I never heard of any userspace program using "pages" as a unit, I'm tending more toward the one Kai and Les proposed. Not entirely discarting yours, tho. - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEhN38pdyWzQ5b5ckRAgWTAKCTsgoU4KHPrtysA0sFAHISJ/wclQCfZ+81 P/yqmv4wvTlPdTsccYvVu5Q= =kDyw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----