Strange output of `swap -s'

From: Mark Andrews (mta61_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/18/04

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    Date: 18 Aug 2004 12:00:31 -0700

    We've got a 6 partition Origin 3800 system with 1 gig of swap space:

    $swap -l
    lswap path dev pri swaplo blocks free maxswap
    vswap
        1 /dev/swap
                       0,838 0 0 2097152 2097152 2097152
    0

    but when I use the -s option to swap, the numbers are much larger:

    $swap -s
    total: 0.00k allocated + 11.15g add'l reserved = 11.15g bytes used,
    21.68g bytes available

    Any idea what's causing the massive discrepancy in reported numbers?

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