If it is swapped out it will have nearly zero pages in memory.
Execute prstat or ps and check the RSS. The PIDs you are interested in
will have near zero RSS.
arwen:alias my_ps
my_ps='ps -e -o user,pid,rss,class,projid,comm'
my_ps | sort -k 3 | less
root 3 0 SYS 0 fsflush
root 2 0 SYS 0 pageout
root 0 0 SYS 0 sched
root 488 764 TS 0 /usr/lib/utmpd
rw8775 2815 816 IA 100 sleep
root 541 828 TS 0 /usr/sadm/lib/smc/bin/smcboot
root 540 860 TS 0 /usr/sadm/lib/smc/bin/smcboot
rw8775 2733 948 IA 100 sh
rw8775 1799 952 IA 100 /bin/sh
rw8775 1800 952 IA 100 /bin/sh
root 388 960 TS 0 /usr/lib/inet/in.ndpd
rw8775 2817 976 IA 100 sort
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On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 01:50:45AM -0700, Sebastian Fontaine wrote:
> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:50:45 -0700 (PDT)
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> Subject: [perf-discuss] find swapping prozess PID
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> Hi,
>
> on my 1280 with sol10 u4 last patched on february I had 60 swapping Prozesses
> found with vmstat.
> By restarting some prozesses like apache, rpcbind etc I could eliminate 50%.
> Now I have still some left:
>
> >vmstat 1 5
> kthr memory page disk faults cpu
> r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr m1 m1 m1 m2 in sy cs us sy id
> 0 0 62 20805336 5742656 1008 2382 4419 79 88 0 65 6 5 5 0 2343 12800 3642 7
> 6 87
> 0 0 [b]26[/b] 22054400 5503360 296 703 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1008 6310 2273
> 2 7 91
> 0 0 [b]26[/b] 22053128 5500496 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 654 2673 1276
> 2 1 97
> 0 0 [b]26[/b] 22055576 5503752 52 86 412 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1177 6516 2981
> 1 2 97
> 0 0 [b]26[/b] 22056928 5503320 139 127 651 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2763 18889 7468
> 3 3 94
>
>
> In my opinion it is very strange that those 26 Prozesses are there now for
> weeks.
> And there is much memory free:
>
> Memory: 24G phys mem, 5343M free mem, 20G total swap, 19G free swap
>
> Has anybody an Idea how I could identify the PID of the swapping prozesses?
> I found a tool kalled dmstat.sh which is using dtrace to gather more
> information, but it waits for a PID as an option.
> So, if I have several Prozesses swapping, shown by vmstat (see obove) how can
> I get the related PID's?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance
> Sebastian Fontaine
>
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