LiveUSB memory mystery

Sun Jan 17 20:46:48 UTC 2010

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 15:22:07 -0500,
  Steven Stern <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:
> Here's the mystery. I'm running F12 from a 4GB USB key with a 2.5GB
> persistent overlay on a machine with 2GB of memory.
> 
> Top shows
> 
> Mem:   2060824k total,  1912924k used,   147900k free,    89556k buffers
> Swap:  4112376k total,      276k used,  4112100k free,  1478628k cached
> 
> Where is it finding 4GB of swap?

Maybe an existing swap partition on the hard drive is being used?