Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:41:39 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: John <lists@reiteration.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swapfile being eaten by unknown process Message-ID: <20050215024139.GA97764@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050215012633.M48733@reiteration.net> References: <20050215012633.M48733@reiteration.net>
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--vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:30:42AM +0000, John wrote: > Hello list >=20 > 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 --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCEWFjWry0BWjoQKURAsdFAKCu5O1jpALYXu8TAT+Tcc+6NP+J5wCgrhoT 3Q2IghLwU7T7Vz93FCgAMog= =RXUa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL--
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