# On Windows system.memory.swap.total shows 2GB although there is no swap

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-windows-system-memory-swap-total-shows-2gb-although-there-is-no-swap/254663>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [November 8, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-windows-system-memory-swap-total-shows-2gb-although-there-is-no-swap/254663 "2020-11-08T10:55:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![goodmirek5849](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/goodmirek5849/32/39761_2.png) [@goodmirek5849](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/goodmirek5849)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-windows-system-memory-swap-total-shows-2gb-although-there-is-no-swap/254663/1 "2020-11-08T10:55:28Z")

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We run metricbeat-oss-7.9.2-windows-x86\_64.zip on Windows Server 2016 and send data to Kafka. From Kafka, we consume data with Logstash and send them to ElasticCloud.  
We observe an issue with system.memory.swap.\* metrics, which show non-zero values, although swap is completely disabled on the servers.

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**Author:** ![mtojek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mtojek/32/63863_2.png) [@mtojek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mtojek)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 8:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-windows-system-memory-swap-total-shows-2gb-although-there-is-no-swap/254663/2 "2020-11-09T08:35:40Z")

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Metricbeat uses `gosigar` library, which internally runs the following code:

```auto
func (self *Swap) Get() error {
	memoryStatusEx, err := windows.GlobalMemoryStatusEx()
	if err != nil {
		return errors.Wrap(err, "GlobalMemoryStatusEx failed")
	}

	self.Total = memoryStatusEx.TotalPageFile
	self.Free = memoryStatusEx.AvailPageFile
	self.Used = self.Total - self.Free
	return nil
}

```

This might be a reason why you're observing non-zero values.

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**Author:** ![goodmirek5849](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/goodmirek5849/32/39761_2.png) [@goodmirek5849](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/goodmirek5849)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-windows-system-memory-swap-total-shows-2gb-although-there-is-no-swap/254663/3 "2020-11-09T09:26:58Z")

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@mtojek Thanks for your reply.  
Although it does not solve the issue we experience, it can help to fix the bug.

Do you confirm this is a bug, so I can open an issue on Github?

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**Author:** ![mtojek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mtojek/32/63863_2.png) [@mtojek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mtojek)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 12:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-windows-system-memory-swap-total-shows-2gb-although-there-is-no-swap/254663/4 "2020-11-09T12:16:07Z")

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Could you please paste any wrong reports you received? Are these random values?

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**Author:** ![MarianaD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marianad/32/42687_2.png) [@MarianaD](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MarianaD)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-windows-system-memory-swap-total-shows-2gb-although-there-is-no-swap/254663/5 "2020-11-16T09:29:13Z")

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@goodmirek5849, we have an open issue already [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/19875](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/19875) and we are investigating other paths here, meanwhile you can use the workaround suggested in the issue.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/on-windows-system-memory-swap-total-shows-2gb-although-there-is-no-swap/254663/6 "2020-12-14T11:29:29Z")

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