Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 730724
Discrepancy with SWAP field description on top man page
Last modified: 2016-01-31 20:55:28 EST
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
top man page is part of the procps package, so changing to the correct component
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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.
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