Re: Digging in the (linux) swap file

2003-07-18 Thread Chris Benson
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:14:16PM +0100, Steve Keay wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:55:59PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: I don't think the kernel makes any per-process statistics visible. there's a bunch of numbers in /proc/PID/{maps,stat,statm,status} That might tell you something. I'm

Re: Digging in the (linux) swap file

2003-07-18 Thread Dan Brook
Perhaps the Proc::ProcessTable module may be of some use? http://search.cpan.org/author/DURIST/Proc-ProcessTable-0.38/ProcessTable.pm Dan

Digging in the (linux) swap file

2003-07-17 Thread Paul Makepeace
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

Re: Digging in the (linux) swap file

2003-07-17 Thread muppet
Paul Makepeace said: 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? top and ps show you what processes are using swap. particularly, in the STAT column, the W means that the process is sawpped out, except for

Re: Digging in the (linux) swap file

2003-07-17 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:44:22PM -0400, muppet wrote: 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? top and ps show you what processes are using swap. particularly, in the STAT There's a critical

Re: Digging in the (linux) swap file

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Keay
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:55:59PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: 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? If the machine is not thrashing (i.e. lots of i/o to the swapfile) then perhaps the processes with