On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: > 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.
Hit F2, and go down to 'columns'. Anything per-process found under /proc can be added as a column. -- :wq
