Is anyone aware of tools that will show what processes, and what in those processes are using the swap -- e.g. the data paged out? I found nothing on freshmeat or google. There seem, funnily enough, to be plenty of such tools for Windows.
I'm curious since I have about 180MB of swap used and it's been gradually creeping up over the months (versus apache which I have to regularly restart). ** Trying to create another swap file, cfdisk can't re-read the partition table, neither will blockdev --rereadpt (there's only been an addition into the Extended partition). Is there some way for it to force a re-read to update /proc/partitions so I can mkswap? The machine's remote & not easily rebootable or single-user-mode-able (the obvious answers). # swapon /dev/sda10 swapon: /dev/sda10: No such device or address # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy # Paul PS dd if=/dev/swap | strings revealed an awful lot of perl module names. A cpan process running since January was using 35MB RSS+40MB swap... -- Paul Makepeace ....................................... http://paulm.com/ "What is the cat doing on my lap? Listen to the wind." -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/
