On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 07:12:59PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > From: "Jack Raats" <j...@jarasoft.net> > > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:17:05 +0100 > > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > > > It looks like that there may be a memory leak of my swap space with one of > > the processes that is running. > > Big question: How can I determine which process is responsible. > > > > Any suggestions? > > ps -aux Look for processes with large values in the VSZ column. > > I'm sure that there are other ways to see this, but that's an easy > one. You can, of course, pipe the output to sort and use the -k 5 -n > options.
I believe he should be looking for a process that has a large value in RSS ("RES" in top), not VSZ ("SIZE" in top). -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"