free(1) says:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        514664     456576      58088          0      31988     173088
-/+ buffers/cache:     251500     263164
Swap:       538136      23016     515120
which looks correct compared to /proc/meminfo.
OTOH, ps(1) (and qps for that matter) show much higher aggregate swap
usage.  A couple of intersting lines from ps avxww --forest:
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME  MAJFL   TRS   DRS  RSS %MEM COMMAND
 1402 ?        S      2:29    784  1336 100875 22308  4.3  \_ /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt07 -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-PNAkTo
 1717 ?        S      0:05   2692   454 100353 18608  3.6          \_ kppp
 1718 ?        S      0:00     34   454 14329 3752  0.7          |   \_ kppp
 3985 ?        S      0:39  13864   785 57238 37040  7.1          \_ /opt/mozilla/mozilla-bin
 4718 ?        S      0:01    747   204 10219 6348  1.2          \_ xterm -u8
 4720 pts/1    S      0:00    392   414  2393 1704  0.3          |   \_ bash
plus another 8 or so xterms all with similar DRS vs RSS numbers.  Qps
shows results similar to ps.
ps avxww|awk '{print $6 + $7 - $8}'|awk '{i += $1} END {print i}'
returned 470418 just now, when meminfo is claiming:
SwapTotal:      538136 kB
SwapFree:       515120 kB
Is this just a bug in /proc/meminfo?
-JimC
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