swapfile being eaten by unknown process

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:30:42AM +0000, John wrote:
> Hello list
> 
> Is there a way of seeing *what* program/process is eating swap. There are
> loads of ways of seeing that it is being eaten, but so far haven't found a way
> of knowing what eats, so can't fix the problem. Can anyone enlighten me?

Use ps or top, and look for the process with the huge size.  This is
not foolproof, because a process can allocate memory without using it
(e.g. rpc.statd), but it's a place to start.  If you see a process
that is both large, and paging to/from disk, that's a better
indication.

Kris
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