On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:22:06 -0700
"Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> Processes are swapped opportunistically by GNU/Linux. Both swap and
> cache are used to optimize system performance.
The links you provided are a worthwhile read. But I think the OP is
asking if there is a method to determine which p
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
From: Michael Z Daryabeygi
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 5:43 PM
> Subject: Re: what is using my swap
>
>
> I know nothing, but I would think that the OS uses swap, not individual
> processes. Probably the memory optimi
Hello,
> I have a program that suspect is cause my swap to grow to almost a
> gig, but it would be nice to verify without restarting a very
> mission critical program.
Start "top" and press "M". Top sorts the processes by memory consumption
now. If you have 2GB RAM + 2GB Swap, a program that e
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:07:15PM -0400, theal 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.
>
> Tony
I take it 'top' doesn
On Wednesday June 8 2005 2:07 pm, theal 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.
Are you using RAM? Has your machine be
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:49:27 -0400
"theal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a program that suspect is cause my swap to grow to almost a
> gig, but it would be nice to verify without restarting a very mission
> critical program.
Try running "ps aux | less" and look for any processes using more t
08, 2005 5:43
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Subject: Re: what is using my swap
I know nothing, but I would think that the OS uses swap, not
individual processes. Probably the memory optimizer does it's job
regardless of free memory?What is the problem with using swap?
Or are you just curious?theal
I know nothing, but I would think that the OS uses swap, not individual
processes. Probably the memory optimizer does it's job regardless of
free memory?
What is the problem with using swap? Or are you just curious?
theal wrote:
Does anyone know how to tell what program or PID is causing swap
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