SWAP sucker

Jason Stewart jstewart at rtl.org
Mon Mar 28 06:28:23 PST 2005


On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 21:56 +1000, Warren wrote:
> is there a way to tell what is using all my SWAP ?  out of 500meg of swap i 
> have allocated something is using approx 95% and killing my system and 
> bogging it down.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

Try using ps(1). ps auxw will show you most of what you need to know
about a process and the memory/cpu that it is consuming.

Cheers,
Jason



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