Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > Today while I was out, one of our sytems slowed to a crawl. > > /var/log/messages shows the swapfile filled to capacity. > > I will be doubling RAM (to 1 GIG and the swap partition to 2 GIG) in the very > new future. > > DOes anyone know if there is a method for tracing what process would have > filled the swapfile?
Not after the fact, but while it's all happening you can use 'top -osize'
to see the biggest processes you've got running.
Cheers,
Matthew
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