Re: [Dorset] Swap page usage

2014-11-02 Thread Tim
On 02/11/14 00:23, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Tim, a more specific program for looking at the swap file. Try grep VmSwap /proc/*/status | sort -k2n and see if it gives a clue what processes are using a lot. You might want to run it when you don't think there's a problem to get some idea

Re: [Dorset] Swap page usage

2014-11-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > a more specific program for looking at the swap file. Try grep VmSwap /proc/*/status | sort -k2n and see if it gives a clue what processes are using a lot. You might want to run it when you don't think there's a problem to get some idea what normally uses swap. There's also sme

Re: [Dorset] Swap page usage

2014-11-01 Thread Tim
On 01/11/14 22:09, Victor Churchill wrote: I've tried using 'htop' ( a rather more feature-ful version of 'top' : apt-get install htop) in situations like this; you can sort by memory-use to see what programs are using you physical and/or virtual memory. But sometimes it doesn't seem to tell th

[Dorset] Swap page usage

2014-11-01 Thread Tim
Is there any program or anyway to find out what programs are using my swapdisk\space?? The reason I wish to know is that since installing the latest SolydXK update my swap file usage has gone through the roof. On my 4gb of memory, it has gone from 2% to 5% pre update to around 80% to 85% and I