wrong SWAP values in top's output

From: José Toneh
Date: Fri Dec 16 2005 - 04:13:45 EST


Hello,

I'm running Debian Sarge's stock 2.6 kernel here:

$ uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.8-2-k7 #1 Thu May 19 18:03:29 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

$ vmstat -s | grep -1 'used swap'
799992 total swap
463680 used swap
336312 free swap

$ top -bn1 | awk 'NR > 6 && NR < 20 { t += $4; print }
> END { print "Total SWAP for the first 12 processes: " t "m" }'
PID %MEM VIRT SWAP RES CODE DATA SHR nFLT nDRT S PR NI %CPU COMMAND
18551 14.1 345m 273m 71m 1712 343m 101m 1373 0 S 5 -10 4.0 XFree86
25397 49.5 505m 255m 249m 164 505m 40m 3700 0 S 15 0 2.0 mozilla-bin
24759 0.5 236m 234m 2416 16 236m 54m 138 0 S 17 0 0.0 java_vm
3107 4.6 113m 89m 23m 164 112m 34m 1462 0 S 15 0 0.0 mozilla-bin
31064 1.5 65956 57m 7572 568 63m 19m 291 0 S 15 0 0.0 beep-media-
27359 0.2 51756 49m 1224 124 50m 2424 0 0 S 25 0 0.0 pdnsd
19098 3.0 45592 29m 15m 960 43m 15m 368 0 S 15 0 0.0 nicotine
18653 1.9 37656 27m 9684 644 36m 19m 472 0 S 16 0 0.0 nautilus
16887 1.6 27544 18m 8416 428 26m 14m 146 0 S 15 0 0.0 xchat
12479 3.1 33560 16m 15m 428 32m 14m 147 0 S 15 0 0.0 xchat
18615 0.4 17832 15m 1932 52 17m 3572 320 0 S 16 0 0.0 gconfd-2
18628 0.8 18896 14m 4332 160 18m 17m 6 0 S 16 0 0.0 gnome-setti
Total SWAP for the first 12 processes: 1076m

Seems like a bug to me.

Regards,

José Toneh










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