Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:37:40 +0200 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Specific Swap Usage Message-ID: <20080228143740.GY57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <47C6BA70.5070509@quip.cz> References: <47C5E204.9080003@rfc2549.org> <47C6BA70.5070509@quip.cz>
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:43:12PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> 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)
Swapped process very much means swapped out kernel stack only.
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