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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
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Subject: Re: swap with samba question using 2.4.12-ac3
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:58:59PM -0400, safemode wrote:
> Ok, this is strange.   I'm stating about 3000 mp3s and they are on my linux 
> box on a samba share.  Now this is on a 100mbit network so it's going at 
> 4+MB/s.   I started compiling avifile and i noticed that my swap usage was at 
> 105MB.   Not sure how it got that way as most of my ram (660MB) is being used 
> as cache.   I'm not seeing any io so i'm guessing it's just mapped, not 
> actually being used. 
> 
> My real question is:   is it possible to just give the value of swap actually 
> being used as the swap use number? We have a breakdown of ram usage, but i 
> dont know of any breakdown of swap usage ( actual use vs. mapped).  It's just 
> a bit decieving when you glance at it and you see ram free 2MB swap use 105MB 
> but then you realize that 87% of your ram is still being used as cache so you 
> can't possibly be actually using 105MB of swap.   Heh.  smooth sailing though.

I think should be (SwapTotal - SwapFree - SwapCached) to get the ammount of
actually used swap.

Someone please let us know if I'm wrong.
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