on Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:07:15PM -0400, theal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone know how to tell what program or PID is causing swap > usage? I have a system with 2 GB RAM so it should using little or no > swap, but at times it does and I need to determine what the cause is.
Processes are swapped opportunistically by GNU/Linux. Both swap and
cache are used to optimize system performance.
A couple of worthwhile articles to read:
http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/linux-kernel/swap.html
http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/linux-kernel/free-mem.html
Peace.
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