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Subject: Re: /proc/meminfo - swap question
References: <20030515104428 DOT GN19367 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de>
From: Roman Belenov <rbelenov AT yandex DOT ru>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 15:06:04 +0400
In-Reply-To: <20030515104428.GN19367@cygbert.vinschen.de> (Corinna
 Vinschen's message of "Thu, 15 May 2003 14:44:28 +0400")
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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> writes:

> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:03:52PM -0700, linda w (cyg) wrote:
>> /proc/meminfo reports:
>> >          total:      used:      free:
>> > Mem:   536305664  339480576  196825088
>> > Swap: 1043218432  283000832  760217600
>> > 	Thing is, my swapfile is 512M (physmem=512M).  So instead
>> > of 'swap' and 'mem', shouldn't those fields be labeled virtual and
>> > physical memory?
>
> These are the same names used by Linux /proc/meminfo.

But the meaning is different; IMHO the values should fixed to be
Linux-compatible.

-- 
 							With regards, Roman.


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