How to see container swap memory

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This command can’t display swap memory info, and how to show the container swap memory?

I’m running on Ubuntu 19.10 (unsupported) - that being said this seems to work for me for viewing consumed swap of a specific container - assuming I’m interpreting this output correctly (easily tested):

foo@lab01:~$ docker ps -a  #find the CONTAINER ID
foo@lab01:~$ docker inspect 3a0a1wzf819 | grep -P '((Memory)|(PID))'  #Example using a CONTAINER ID
        "Memory": 0,
        "KernelMemory": 0,
        "KernelMemoryTCP": 0,
        "MemoryReservation": 0,
        "MemorySwap": 0,
        "MemorySwappiness": null,
foo@lab01:~$ 

Is that what you’re looking for?

I want to monitor real-time swap memory information, not the limit information in the configuration file.

I didnt set a limit of “0” on most of these - so outside unless they are defaults - hmph. That being said, you can use top for most things.

foo@lab-01:~$ docker inspect -f '{{.State.Pid}}' <CONTAINER ID>  #use this to find the PID of the container on the host

foo@lab-01:~$ top -p <Returned PID above>

An example would look like this:

foo@lab-01:~$ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                 COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                                                    NAMES
3a0a47a3e812        ubuntu   "/bin/bash:…"   4 hours ago         Up 4 hours  
foo@lab-01:~$ docker inspect -f '{{.State.Pid}}' 3a0a47a3e812
17697
foo@lab-01:~$ top -p 17697

top - 04:07:56 up 12:19,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks:   1 total,   0 running,   1 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  0.2 us,  0.0 sy,  0.0 ni, 99.8 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
MiB Mem :   3907.9 total,   2019.1 free,    437.8 used,   1451.1 buff/cache
MiB Swap:      0.0 total,      0.0 free,      0.0 used.   3229.3 avail Mem

PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
17697 root      20   0  127176  26928  17592 S   0.0   0.7   0:02.88 ubuntu
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