procps/top output shows values for SWAP which make no sense

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Issue

top shows values for SWAP on a system which did not swap at all so far, i.e.:

  PID USER      VIRT  RES  SHR S SWAP CODE DATA COMMAND                                                                   
  495 root      8556 2416  392 S 6140    4 5024 a.out

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • package procps version <3.2.7-22.el5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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