top swap interpretation help?
Tim
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Sun Mar 29 06:25:47 UTC 2009
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 12:01 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote:
> When I run top I sometimes see a figure for swap that seems to be
> relatively constant. Is it the case that the figure shown is the
> maximum swap that has been used?
top - 16:54:06 up 1:44, 2 users, load average: 0.41, 0.20, 0.09
Tasks: 151 total, 3 running, 148 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 12.1%us, 6.7%sy, 14.8%ni, 39.1%id, 26.8%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1034016k total, 644736k used, 389280k free, 22040k buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 0k used, 2031608k free, 265412k cached
The two "total" amounts, shown immediately above, are the total
available amounts of memory. How they're being used is written
alongside.
If you mean something else, you should provide an example.
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