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Re: /proc/meminfo - swap question


Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.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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