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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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