On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: > Dale writes: > >> Is there a way to find out what is using swap? Maybe something related >> to the video is on swap which at times can be slow, certainly slower >> than ram. >> >> I have always wondered how to find this out myself. > > Me too, so when I had this sudden swap problem for the first time, I > searched for a method to do this and found a script here: > http://northernmost.org/blog/find-out-what-is-using-your-swap/ > > There's lots of information for all processes in /proc/<pid>/. Trying to > read /proc/<pid>/mem (I think it was this file) in mc was not such a good > idea, the system froze with lots of HD activity, and after half an hour I > rebooted with Alt-SysRq-{K,E,I,S,U,B}. > > I improved the script a little, it allows sorting by PID, size and name, > and can restrict the output to specific processes or show only those > using more swap than specified. If interested you can download it here: > http://www.wonkology.org/utils/getswap > You need to be root to see processes you do not own. > > But of course, I forgot to run it after the sudden swap problem happened > lately. So I still do not know what was going on there. I'll wait for the > next time it happens. > > Wonko >
sys-process/htop -- :wq
