Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 14:16:12 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: who is in swap? Message-ID: <BANLkTi=VPQ-hFePDuwACpvFTE8VLmhQN8w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E1QNNvQ-000MGW-Ke@cs.huji.ac.il> References: <E1QNNvQ-000MGW-Ke@cs.huji.ac.il>
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On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> wrote: > Hi, > We have a host, providing mainly http/postgres service, and its > swap usage is increasing. Is there any way to check which process > is using swap space? > > some facts > it's running 8.2-stable/amd64 > has 24gb of memory > zfs seems to be ok, arc size too. > top says 32G in use, while vmstat avm is around 2G (can't figure this one) > top seems to be concervative as to free memory vs. vmstat > it's dataless. > > the swap usage is monotonic increasing, but it will take some 20 days > to exhaust the space, it will hang before that :-( - which > is what I'm trying to find why > ps ax If second character of state column is W, the process is swapped out. -- Adam Vande More
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