On Wed November 28 2007 20:53, Peter Salisbury wrote:
> 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
As a comparison I checked what Top said I had free in swap and then compared
it to what gkrellm was told me I had free in swap, both are the same 1434mb
free.
Looking at the Stats on my system gam-server is using the most 800+mb
Tim
Tim
