On Monday 13 June 2011 19:08:09 Per Jessen wrote:
If you take a quick(!) look at top with the swap column added
Trust me, I have, on several occasions, and I have no idea what that thing measures. It is nothing with any relation to reality On my system it is telling me right now that kontact is consuming 629 megabytes of swap - the truth is that the entire system is only consuming 25 megabytes. In total if I sum up the swap column I'm looking at multiple gigabytes, possibly a terabyte (I'm too lazy to do the math but I see large numbers) It is just a useless value In my experience, the only value that comes close to the truth is the one in smaps, and then you have to do a lot of manual adding up. It is a very neglected part of the system and has been for years The virtual memory size is as I described, absolutely anything that a process has even thought about putting into its address space. It is not a value you can use to base any calculations on Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org