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Date:      Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:30:52 -0700
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        fml <tetrosalame@gmail.com>
Cc:        tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to measure what is consuming swap space
Message-ID:  <B774D0F5-6083-4CF5-90C1-72AF6A0A4B12@mail.sermon-archive.info>
In-Reply-To: <20170810191022.GA9482@avalon.thwn>
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On 10 August 2017, at 12:10, fml <tetrosalame@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 10:43:12AM +0100, tech-lists wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>=20
>> What's the best command to see what processes are consuming swap =
space?
>>=20
>=20
> Did you try top -w ?
> It shows per-process swap usage.

The -w only exists in the most current versions.  Even there, on all my =
11.0 and 11.1 systems it shows 0K for all processes even though swap is =
being used.  As the man page states, its only an approximation.

-- Doug





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