Hi Tim,
> a more specific program for looking at the swap file.
Try
grep VmSwap /proc/*/status | sort -k2n
and see if it gives a clue what processes are using a lot. You might
want to run it when you don't think there's a problem to get some idea
what normally uses swap.
There's also smem(1), from package smem, that tries to apportion shared
memory that's swapped out amongst the processes; because of shared
pages it's not necessarily a simple figure per process.
Cheers, Ralph.
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