Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 18:57:55 -0700 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Swap Usage Message-ID: <f4a3f3c22a83638087162328c5c8702b@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <BCA67F7E-676A-4226-83A0-84229948895E@lafn.org> References: <BCA67F7E-676A-4226-83A0-84229948895E@lafn.org>
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On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:41:33 -0700 Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote > I have several FreeBSD 9.3 systems that are using swap and I can’t figure > out what is doing it. The key system has 6GB swap and currently it has over > 2GB in use. ps shows only a kernel module [intr] with a W status. Obviously > that isn’t using the space. No other process shows a W in its status. I > suspect this is somewhat related to the use of mmap in one application. > However, all of the mmaps in that application are file backed and thus > shouldn’t use swap. How do I figure out what that swap space is being used > for? Maybe top(1)? top -P for example. At least you could see who's chewing all your memory. Which should be a good clue as to who's responsible for swap usage. --Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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