From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 2 13:25:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5CE16A420 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:25:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.net (mail.wmptl.com [216.8.159.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BCD243D45 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:25:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from [10.0.0.104] (r3140ca.wmptl.net [10.0.0.104]) by wmptl.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k22DPCo7086978 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:25:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <4406F241.1030504@wmptl.com> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 08:25:21 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.54 on 10.0.0.80 Cc: Subject: sudden jump in swap usage, how to tell what's using it X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:25:14 -0000 Typically, we sit between 0-10% of swap used... this morning I came in, and output of top is showing 76% used; that's some 3Gigs+ more than usual. System load is still sitting at 0.05, and no adverse effects seem to be coming our way. No particular processes appear to be using abnormal amounts of memory, and nothing seems 'off'... is there a way to determine which process(es) have taken out (how much) swap space? -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/