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Re: what is using my swap



on Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:07:15PM -0400, theal (theal@pace2020.com) 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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