Re: what is using my swap
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:22:06 -0700
"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> 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 processes are using
which chunks of the disk as swap space. And I don't think that is
possible to know at any given period of time: the links detail that
this whole business of figuring out which pages to keep in RAM and
which to commit (flush) to swap is an extremely dynamic one.
So, apart from taking a peek at top(1), and sorting by memory use, and
looking in particular for a big difference between the VSIZE and RSS
fields, I don't think it's possible to know for sure. However, if there
is a big difference in the two fields (VSIZE is, as I understand, the
process' requested size - not always the physical RAM size of the
process, but rather how big the process thinks it is) and RSS is
"resident set size", which gives you the actual RAM consumed by the
process.)
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