From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f45.google.com (mail-pa0-f45.google.com [209.85.220.45]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1551F6B0038 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:43:43 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id lf10so16356913pab.18 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:43:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com. [107.14.166.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id d2si30592840pat.238.2014.12.28.16.43.40 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:43:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54A0A3BB.1070908@ubuntu.com> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:43:39 -0500 From: Phillip Susi MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Memory / swap leak? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: "linux-mm@kvack.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Something seems to be eating up all of my swap, but it defies explanation: root@faldara:~# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3929 2881 1048 146 192 1314 - -/+ buffers/cache: 1374 2555 Swap: 2047 2047 0 root@faldara:~# (for file in /proc/*/status ; do cat $file ; done) | awk '/VmSwap/{sum += $2}END{ print sum}' 151804 So according to free, my entire 2 gb of swap is used, yet according to proc, the total swap used by all processes in the system is only 151 mb. How can this be? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUoKO7AAoJENRVrw2cjl5ReXwH/3bS3ZUSU3ej0xiW+LwVMULg MBJN43Jy4VCmaRbfs6HuDBmNINffGoPg2sV4Uq/fOyzhWdgL7FduT9eSkHtueO/M yvVCN+gawtD1izdPL35XnWXyxaz8RWLA5kkUw8ze2HUEkFd1q6GRCLalweUdruxN HVBE3EGSYWLkDD++2b4EVpjYeg7I/Zf85gLYMRGUQki4630VHfWgf9l+SlGWgVRC u8EToFeORLglrq7t1tf5Y+p/3h/l0iyqGwrzUb8qnloTfsWQadUmoffmW8LMrp+7 THdW77JwPp/R+KAFd7tvDD0AcGOZ4+fHa+pXDpGF+3pH6/w12JlOp+gbJoHRu5w= =m+bq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org