On Dec 18, 2007 2:47 PM, Oren Held <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If a process has 1gb in virtual memory, of which 500mb in physical, > then this means that it has 500mb in swap. Or in other words: 500mb that > the > process wanted in physical but couldn't. (isn't that what you asked to > know)
BTW, are you sure the "Virtual" column indicates real+swapped pages? I'm not sure what the terminology really refers to, but something called "virtual" is likely to refer to all pages, even totally non-committed ones -- i.e. when you malloc 1GB, your address space is expanded but until you touch those pages, the kernel wouldn't bother allotting real nor swap memory for it.
