Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:43:12 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Specific Swap Usage Message-ID: <47C6BA70.5070509@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <47C5E204.9080003@rfc2549.org> References: <47C5E204.9080003@rfc2549.org>
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Arne Schwabe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there any way to look what programs are swapped out and how much
> memory they use? Looking at SIZE in top is just a wild guess. One server
> here grows in swap usage and panics eventuelly when all swap is usage.
> Swap usage is growing slowly (100 MB /week ) but it is growing and see
> no way to get what really uses swap :( (Read man ps three times already :/)
AFAIK swapped processes in top are shown in lt + gt signs (braces):
1382 root 1 5 0 1380K 0K ttyin 0:00 0.00% <getty>
from `man top`
COMMAND is the name of the command that the process is currently
running (if the process is swapped out, this column is marked "<swapped>").
In `ps` output in column state: W - The process is swapped out.
You can get a list of swapped processes by this command:
ps auxwww | awk '$8 ~ /.W.*/ { print $0}'
(tested on FreeBSD 6.2 & FreeBSD 7.0)
Miroslav Lachman
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