Bug 730724 - Discrepancy with SWAP field description on top man page
Summary: Discrepancy with SWAP field description on top man page
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: procps
Version: 5.4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jaromír Cápík
QA Contact: Martin Kyral
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-08-15 14:24 UTC by Aaron Ogburn
Modified: 2018-12-05 15:22 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: procps-3.2.7-19
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-01-08 07:32:48 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 237633 0 None None None Never
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2013:0062 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE procps bug fix and enhancement update 2013-01-07 15:27:39 UTC

Description Aaron Ogburn 2011-08-15 14:24:03 UTC
Description of problem:

SWAP is described as "The swapped out portion of a task's total virtual memory image".  This isn't the best description as it may lead one to expect the value of SWAP represents the amount of actual swap space the process is using as reported by other commands such as 'free -m'.  This isn't the case however.  Could this description be improved to prevent this misconception?


Steps to Reproduce:
1. man top
2. /SWAP

Comment 1 Peter Schiffer 2011-10-19 10:44:18 UTC
top man page is part of the procps package, so changing to the correct component

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2012-04-19 13:27:23 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product Management has
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for
potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release for currently
deployed products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in
a release.

Comment 4 Jaromír Cápík 2012-07-03 13:40:23 UTC
Hello Aaron.

I'm changing the description to match the latest procps-ng upstream manual.

------------------------------------------------------
SWAP
The non-resident portion of a task's address space.
------------------------------------------------------

If you have any other suggestions, then let me know.

Thank you.

Regards,
Jaromir.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-08 07:32:48 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0062.html


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