Re: size of swapped-out part of the process

["Victoria Muntean" <vikimun@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:55 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Victoria Muntean <vikimun@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:33 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Victoria Muntean <vikimun@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> How can I calculate size of swapped-out part of the process from
>>>> /proc/PID/*, even if approximately ?
>>>> For example, I have VmSize=1216192 kB, VmRSS = 628788 kB, but global
>>>> swap-in-use==0.
>>>> Hence (VmSize - VmRSS) is far from being swapped-out part of the
>>>> process. What is ?
>>>
>>> Doesn't top's SWAP field give you this?
>>
>> No. SWAP is global. I need per-process. Per-process participation in swap.
>>
>
> Are you sure? I'm not talking about the Swap: BigNumber in the header.
> If you hit f you can add a SWAP column which is per process. Or if it
> isn't per-process, it's horribly misleading.

'top' naively shows (VmSize - VmRSS) in the SWAP column, which is not helpful.