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Subject: Re: how to measure what is consuming swap space
From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
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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