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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:16:23 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikBZ_RNoeKED8TM5aojE7pPJ1V2mvzLGGZToord@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1288072147.8318.56.camel@localhost>

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> nothing unusual there, except for the swap usage itself.  'top' doesn't
> show any large apps.  sorted by mem the top 4 are:
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  8318 iain      20   0  494m 150m  21m S    0  5.0   1:20.67 evolution
> 20424 iain      20   0  342m  77m  30m S    0  2.5   0:01.84 firefox
>  8009 root      20   0 83364  37m 6260 S    7  1.2  38:34.31 X
>  8090 iain      20   0  159m  32m 1600 S    1  1.1   3:48.08 skype
>
> Hm, I just noticed Mem is in %.  % of what?  % total or % used?  Even if
> it was % of total RAM that could be as much as 152Mb for evo and 76Mb
> for firefox.  Not that much really.
>

Divide VIRT by its percentage, then divide RES by its percentage, when the
numbers match you know which one it is.

So it looks like its RES to me by just looking at it. Did you RTFMan page?

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-26  6:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-26  5:49 [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up Iain Buchanan
2010-10-26  6:16 ` Adam Carter [this message]
2010-10-26  6:57   ` Iain Buchanan
2010-10-26  6:30 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-26  7:02   ` Iain Buchanan
2010-10-26  7:18     ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-27 22:47     ` Iain Buchanan
2010-10-27 23:44       ` Neil Bothwick
2010-10-27 23:59         ` Dale
2010-10-28  1:12           ` Adam Carter
2010-10-28  3:56             ` Dale
2010-10-28  4:34               ` Adam Carter
2010-10-28  6:32                 ` Dale
2010-11-05  6:45                   ` Iain Buchanan
2010-11-05 13:48                     ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-11-09 21:24                     ` [gentoo-user] " Fatih Tümen
2010-11-15  5:09                       ` Iain Buchanan
2010-11-15  8:41                         ` Fatih Tümen
2010-11-15 14:14                           ` Iain Buchanan
2010-11-15 15:26                             ` Fatih Tümen
2010-11-15 23:43                               ` Dale
2010-11-16  1:17                                 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-10-26  7:10 ` Dale
2010-10-28 16:13 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2010-10-28 23:26   ` Iain Buchanan

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