Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:44:00 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: John <lists@reiteration.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disappearing Swap Message-ID: <20050214204400.GS8365@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <20050214022404.M90640@reiteration.net> References: <20050214022404.M90640@reiteration.net>
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--4CyH/NlNBqvsUTYP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 02:35:18AM +0000, John wrote: > Hello list >=20 > How can I see what process is eating my swap? vmstat indicates that the s= wap > is being eaten, but by what? If it all gets eaten, badness occurs.=20 > I'm running freebsd 5.3-release-p5.=20 >=20 > thanks for any input A good start would be to just look at the output of `ps aux` and to focus on the memory related columns: %MEM VSZ RSS. Take special note of which processes are using large portions of memory. Use can also use top(1) and then sort based on memory usage. I guess I'm suggesting that rather than trying to figure out what is using all your swap, to turn the search around and try to find what is using all your physical memory such that intense swapping becomes necessary. Nathan --4CyH/NlNBqvsUTYP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCEQ2QO0ZIEthSfkkRAu+JAKDt7GT/Dr8qEIJi8GS0Lhgv756twACgoepV ZBC8a171xiHkLcuoS9knXAM= =oc0g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4CyH/NlNBqvsUTYP--
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