linux-kernel - Re: size of swapped-out part of the process

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Message-ID: <3aaafc130811170555l7e35b6b9s169d03f23eeb6388@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:55:40 -0500
From:	"J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@...il.com>
To:	"Victoria Muntean" <vikimun@...il.com>
Cc:	"Kernel Linux" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: size of swapped-out part of the process

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Victoria Muntean <vikimun@...il.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:33 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Victoria Muntean <vikimun@...il.com> wrote:
>>> How can I calculate size of swapped-out part of the process from
>>> /proc/PID/*, even if approximately ?
>>> For example, I have VmSize=1216192 kB, VmRSS = 628788 kB, but global
>>> swap-in-use==0.
>>> Hence (VmSize - VmRSS) is far from being swapped-out part of the
>>> process. What is ?
>>
>> Doesn't top's SWAP field give you this?
>
> No. SWAP is global. I need per-process. Per-process participation in swap.
>

Are you sure? I'm not talking about the Swap: BigNumber in the header.
If you hit f you can add a SWAP column which is per process. Or if it
isn't per-process, it's horribly misleading.
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