From 4770195b870e22ab5a1ce6eece59d32bb90244ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Craig Small Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:58:48 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: vmstat.8 - swap is not virtual memory Chanson Shen rightly pointed out that vmstat swpd stat is swap memory used not virtual memory used. Signed-off-by: Craig Small --- vmstat.8 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/vmstat.8 b/vmstat.8 index 4511c50d..ebe15b02 100644 --- a/vmstat.8 +++ b/vmstat.8 @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ b: The number of processes blocked waiting for I/O to complete. .B "Memory" These are affected by the \fB\-\-unit\fR option. .nf -swpd: the amount of virtual memory used. +swpd: the amount of swap memory used. free: the amount of idle memory. buff: the amount of memory used as buffers. cache: the amount of memory used as cache.