From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932146AbVLQNIl (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:08:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932577AbVLQNIl (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:08:41 -0500 Received: from smtp-out-02.utu.fi ([130.232.202.172]:53993 "EHLO smtp-out-02.utu.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932146AbVLQNIl (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:08:41 -0500 Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:08:38 +0200 From: Jan Knutar Subject: Re: wrong SWAP values in top's output In-reply-to: <20051216090826.10626.qmail@web35007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Jos=E9_Toneh?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <200512171508.38912.jk-lkml@sci.fi> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline References: <20051216090826.10626.qmail@web35007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 16 December 2005 11:08, you wrote: > 463680 used swap > PID %MEM VIRT SWAP RES CODE DATA SHR nFLT nDRT S PR NI %CPU COMMAND > 18551 14.1 345m 273m 71m 1712 343m 101m 1373 0 S 5 -10 4.0 XFree86 > 25397 49.5 505m 255m 249m 164 505m 40m 3700 0 S 15 0 2.0 mozilla-bin > 24759 0.5 236m 234m 2416 16 236m 54m 138 0 S 17 0 0.0 java_vm Shared pages and similar? Seens like top's "SWAP" column is simply VIRT-RES. Let's not also forget that read-only executable code just gets discarded from memory, and not pushed to swap. If needed again, it gets read back in from the file. Oh, it's supposedly also bad to renice X to -10 with recent kernels ;-)