The swapper seems to use enormous amounts

The swapper seems to use enormous amounts of paging space, why?


When you run ps, you may see a line like:

USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT TIME CMD
root 0 0.0% 14% 386528 8688 - S 17:06 swapper

This is normal behavior, the swapper looks to ps like it has the entire
paging space plus real memory allocated.



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