From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 14:28:23 2005 Return-Path: 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 8035D16A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:28:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.rtl.org (rtl-3.i2k.com [66.255.200.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2176D43D3F for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:28:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jstewart@rtl.org) Received: from mis3c.rtl.lan (rtl-2.i2k.com [66.255.200.206]) by mail.rtl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6EC630B07; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:26:15 -0500 (EST) From: Jason Stewart To: Warren In-Reply-To: <200503282156.25402.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> References: <200503282156.25402.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Right to Life of Michigan Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:28:18 -0500 Message-Id: <1112020098.8075.40.camel@mis3c.rtl.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SWAP sucker X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:28:23 -0000 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