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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:16:56
Message-Id: AANLkTikBZ_RNoeKED8TM5aojE7pPJ1V2mvzLGGZToord@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up by Iain Buchanan
1 > nothing unusual there, except for the swap usage itself. 'top' doesn't
2 > show any large apps. sorted by mem the top 4 are:
3 > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4 > 8318 iain 20 0 494m 150m 21m S 0 5.0 1:20.67 evolution
5 > 20424 iain 20 0 342m 77m 30m S 0 2.5 0:01.84 firefox
6 > 8009 root 20 0 83364 37m 6260 S 7 1.2 38:34.31 X
7 > 8090 iain 20 0 159m 32m 1600 S 1 1.1 3:48.08 skype
8 >
9 > Hm, I just noticed Mem is in %. % of what? % total or % used? Even if
10 > it was % of total RAM that could be as much as 152Mb for evo and 76Mb
11 > for firefox. Not that much really.
12 >
13
14 Divide VIRT by its percentage, then divide RES by its percentage, when the
15 numbers match you know which one it is.
16
17 So it looks like its RES to me by just looking at it. Did you RTFMan page?

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Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>