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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

What may be sitting in my swap?

Hi,

$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           947        925         21          0         13        619
-/+ buffers/cache:        292        654
Swap:         4094          5       4089

It's a somewhat new development. Swap usage is now always in the range of some megabytes; used to be always zero. What could it mean?

dav7

Member

From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 674

Re: What may be sitting in my swap?

That you possibly used something that allocated over 1GB of RAM.

htop is better (read: nicer) at showing swap usage, btw.

-dav7

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