Danny, Mike,
Thank you for your reply.
>I believe the SWAP column only displays the swappable memory chunk, not
actual
>swapped memory. If you disable swap using "swapoff -a" you will see the
SWAP
>column in top still contains the same values.
In the man page of top command, the explanation of SWAP column is :
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p: SWAP -- Swapped size (kb)
The swapped out portion of a task's total virtual memory image.
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Anyway thank you.
Regards, Liu Bo
2010/3/31 Danny Engelbarts <[email protected]>
> On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:03:05 zzflop wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 04:56:04PM +0800, liu bo wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Could anybody tell me whether the SWAP space of my computer is used?
> > >
> > > According to the information below,
> > >
> > > Swap: 307192k total, 0k used
> > >
> > > VIRT SWAP RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> > > 693m 657m 35m 8780 S 0 2.0 0:51.46 X
> > >
> > > I don't know how to explain the two conflicted data above.
> >
> > My default top command doesn't show the SWAP field, but I
> > read the man page to see how to toggle it and I also have
> > entries in the SWAP field with the upper "0k used". I don't
> > know the reason for it, but am curious about the diff too.
>
> I believe the SWAP column only displays the swappable memory chunk, not
> actual
> swapped memory. If you disable swap using "swapoff -a" you will see the
> SWAP
> column in top still contains the same values.
>
> Regards, Danny.
>
> >
> > I rarely show anything in the upper entry except when
> > playing video files.
> >
> > Mike H.
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