Sam Drinkard wrote: > > > William L. Maltby wrote: > >> I need to look more into it, but before I start the long and arduous >> "googling my life away" process, I figured someone might know the >> answer. I've read the man pages several times and they didn't change! >> :-( >> >> As normal, while looking at one thing, something else bites my butt. I >> tuned on the swap field in top and sort on it. Here's an edited snippet >> of the results. >> >> Mem: 775708k total, 764752k used, 10956k free, 60780k buffers >> Swap: 1572856k total, 160k used, 1572696k free, 377324k cached >> >> PID VIRT RES SHR %MEM SWAP COMMAND >> 24729 127m 32m 15m 4.3 94m evolution >> 3409 97220 5268 4304 0.7 89m evolution-data- >> 2851 115m 36m 7120 4.8 79m X >> 10937 109m 45m 14m 6.0 63m firefox-bin >> 3417 63076 7876 6756 1.0 53m evolution-alarm >> 3363 40332 7284 6228 0.9 32m eggcups >> 24745 37480 8176 6876 1.1 28m evolution-excha >> 3736 53272 29m 8660 3.9 22m gnome-terminal >> 3361 44404 21m 10m 2.9 21m nautilus >> 3357 39868 21m 10m 2.8 17m gnome-panel >> 4096 25460 7600 5960 1.0 17m gkrellm >> 3373 20488 3492 2944 0.5 16m gnome-vfs-daemo >> 3367 43608 26m 10m 3.4 16m rhn-applet-gui >> 3359 19904 6128 5316 0.8 13m gnome-volume-ma >> 3387 20904 8068 6696 1.0 12m clock-applet >> 3389 19456 6648 5696 0.9 12m notification-ar >> 3316 19080 7140 5960 0.9 11m gnome-settings- >> 3385 22304 10m 7576 1.4 11m mixer_applet2 >> 3244 21508 9960 6868 1.3 11m gnome-session >> 4144 22476 10m 7456 1.4 11m wnck-applet >> 2587 12412 2364 1940 0.3 9.8m gdm-binary >> 2846 13220 3340 2728 0.4 9880 gdm-binary >> 3365 13812 4532 3920 0.6 9280 pam-panel-icon >> 3355 14768 7524 5984 1.0 7244 metacity >> 7182 10328 3436 2280 0.4 6892 sendmail >> 18501 11080 4248 1912 0.5 6832 cupsd >> >> Note that the summary line says 160k of swap is used. The man pages say >> the summary and the details under "SWAP" are both reported in "k". No >> mention of "m" is made, I presume that it means "megabytes"? >> >> If so, I can't reconcile what I'm seeing. Free seems to support the >> summary lines. >> >> total used free... >> Mem: 775708 764772 10936... >> -/+ buffers/cache: 326584 449124 >> Swap: 1572856 160 1572696 >> >> Cat of /proc/meminfo also seems to support the summary lines. >> >> SwapTotal: 1572856 kB >> SwapFree: 1572696 kB >> >> > 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? most of the 'swapped' data is probably sitting in the cache or buffers? Here is an example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=129064