On Wednesday 28 Nov 2007, Samuel Penn wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 November 2007 18:00:55 Peter Salisbury wrote:
> > How do I find out what's in my swap file / memory?
> >
> > I have a few apps running (KDE, konqueror, kontact, openoffice,
> > gimp, firefox). I have 543MB free memory (out of 1GB) but there
> > is 428MB in the swap file. (gkrellm reports)
>
> Possibly something unused got swapped out to make room for buffers?
>
> top should show you what is using swap - 'f' to select fields if
> SWAP isn't shown, then 'P' to select SWAP. Space returns to the top
> display. You can sort by SWAP usage, using 'O'.
>
> Not sure how useful or accurate it is though, since mine is showing
> results that don't immediately make sense (it's probably counting
> shared memory lots of times).
>
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Thanks Sam,
Not sure what the 'swapped size' in top means though. By doing
swapoff -a; swapon -a I forced it to load all the swapped stuff into
memory. I now have 0 swap according to gkrellm but every process is
showing a non-zero swap size in top, up to 200MB for soffice.bin.
Clearly gkrellm and top are measuring different things!
Peter
