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Date:      Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:02:15 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Nathan Vidican <nvidican@wmptl.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sudden jump in swap usage, how to tell what's using it
Message-ID:  <4406FAE7.6010000@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <4406F241.1030504@wmptl.com>
References:  <4406F241.1030504@wmptl.com>

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Nathan Vidican wrote:
> Typically, we sit between 0-10% of swap used... this morning I came in,
> and output of top is showing 76% used; that's some 3Gigs+ more than usual.
> 
> System load is still sitting at 0.05, and no adverse effects seem to be
> coming our way. No particular processes appear to be using abnormal
> amounts of memory, and nothing seems 'off'... is there a way to
> determine which process(es) have taken out (how much) swap space?

"top -o size" or "top -o res"...

-- 
-Chuck




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