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1.0Gb of Swap reserved?

Asked by aliencoder

Not sure why or what it is but I see 1.0Gb of swap reserved for nacl_helper_boo

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ SWAP COMMAND
 2422 user 20 0 1046m 496 496 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 1.0g nacl_helper_boo

So I am just curious why, and not sure if it's a problem or not.

On Ubuntu Release 11.10 (oneiric)
GNOME 3.2.1
3.0.0-14-generic #23-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 21 20:34:47 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Dell Inspiron 1318
Core2 Duo 2.0Ghz 3GB RAM 250GB HDD

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

free -m; lsb_release -a

Thanks

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aliencoder (aliencoder) said : 		#2

Hi there,
here is the output

             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3016 2478 538 0 147 1019
-/+ buffers/cache: 1310 1706
Swap: 2055 865 1189
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric

And still seeing it
  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ SWAP COMMAND
 2422 USER 20 0 1046m 496 496 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 1.0g nacl_helper_boo

thnx

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Best mycae (mycae) said : 		#3

nacl_helper is a google thing. its for running native code inside a browser (why you would want to have an OS inside your OS, when you can do this with virtualbox, I don't know.)

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Google_native_client

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aliencoder (aliencoder) said : 		#4

Thanks mycae, that solved my question.

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aliencoder (aliencoder) said : 		#5

Thanks :)

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merlinregis (merlinregis) said : 		#6

@mycae :

"why you would want to have an OS inside your OS, when you can do this with virtualbox, I don't know"

The perfect example to reply to this is facebook apps.