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Date:      Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:28:18 -0500
From:      Jason Stewart <jstewart@rtl.org>
To:        Warren <shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SWAP sucker
Message-ID:  <1112020098.8075.40.camel@mis3c.rtl.lan>
In-Reply-To: <200503282156.25402.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com>
References:  <200503282156.25402.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com>

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On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 21:56 +1000, Warren wrote:
> is there a way to tell what is using all my SWAP ?  out of 500meg of swap i 
> have allocated something is using approx 95% and killing my system and 
> bogging it down.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

Try using ps(1). ps auxw will show you most of what you need to know
about a process and the memory/cpu that it is consuming.

Cheers,
Jason



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