[Tfug] I'm using ~2GB of swap space that doesn't exist.

[Bexley Hall]

Hi Bowie,

> This is why I love Linux, and want to shoot
> myself in the face with a 19th century trumpeted muzzle
> loader:
> 
> 
> top - 09:46:10 up 3 min,  6 users,  load average:
> 3.43, 1.84, 0.71
> Tasks: 217 total,   1 running, 216
> sleeping,   0 stopped,   0
> zombie
> Cpu(s):  0.3%us,  1.4%sy, 
> 0.0%ni, 97.9%id,  0.3%wa,  0.0%hi, 
> 0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Mem:  12469436k total,  5118140k used,  7351296k free,    18584k buffers
> Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,  4752240k cached
> 
> PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU 
> 20   0 1939m 1.4g 1.4g S 10.0 11.9   1:31.98 vmware-vmx

{grrrr... can't easily reformat this  :< ]
 
> I have no swap space, yet, vmware-vmx is using 1939MB of it.

The total image (TEXT+DATA) is 1939M.  Pull 11G of RAM out of your box
and watch how the numbers change  :>

> Someone care to enlighten me as to the nature of this
> delightful gem? The manpage for top makes no mention of how
> the "cached" field is different from
> "buffers". I'm assuming this means
> computational pages versus filesystem pages, respectively. 
> 
> But then, why is it listed as part of the "Swap:"
> line, since it's obviously going to be resident in
> physical?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Bowie
> 
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