diff --git a/src/hetrixtools_freebsd/cli.py b/src/hetrixtools_freebsd/cli.py
index 26d8cf3..48335a2 100644
--- a/src/hetrixtools_freebsd/cli.py
+++ b/src/hetrixtools_freebsd/cli.py
@@ -137,7 +137,8 @@ class Update:
         """
         # get last line, split it on spaces
         # Total             2097152   259452  1837700    12%
-        swapinfo = self.callCommand(['/usr/sbin/swapinfo']).splitlines()[-1:].split(" ")
+        swaptext = self.callCommand(['/usr/sbin/swapinfo']).splitlines()[-1:]
+        swapinfo = re.split( " +", swaptext[0] )
         self.ramswap  = str(int(swapinfo[2]) / int(swapinfo[1]))
         # these don't seem to exist on FreeBSD in the same way
         self.rambuff  = str(0)