Michael Mol writes: > 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
Huh? I only see the total amount of swap being used, but no entry per process. Wonko