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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, uclibc@uclibc.org
Subject: Re: Swap strangeness: total VIRT ~23mb for all processes, swap 91156k used - impossible?
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:13:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041028151323.GM12934@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410281333.53976.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:33:53PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> I am playing with 'small/beautiful stuff' like
> bbox/uclibc.
> I ran oom_trigger soon after boot and took
> "top b n 1" snapshot after OOM kill.
> Output puzzles me: total virtual space taken by *all*
> processes is ~23mb yet swap usage is ~90mb.
> How that can be? *What* is there? Surely it can't
> be a filesystem cache because OOM condition reduces that
> to nearly zero.
> top output
> (note: some of them are busybox'ed, others are compiled
> against uclibc, some are statically built with dietlibc,
> rest is plain old shared binaries built against glibc):

Let's get top(1) out of the equation. Could you grab VSZ from directly
from /proc/?


Thanks.


-- wli

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-28 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-28 10:33 Swap strangeness: total VIRT ~23mb for all processes, swap 91156k used - impossible? Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-28 10:35 ` Denis Vlasenko
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.53.0410281257340.19784@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
2004-10-28 11:19   ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-28 11:34     ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-28 11:44       ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-29 10:28         ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-28 15:13 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-10-28 19:31 ` [uClibc] Swap " Dave Dodge

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