swap space usage

[catam]

Same info comes from ps :)

ps axu|head -2
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.0  1516  376 ?        S     2006   0:28 init

grep -E 'VmSize|VmRSS' /proc/1/status
VmSize:     1516 kB
VmRSS:       376 kB


On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Haakon Gjersvik Eriksen wrote:

>
> The /proc file system is your friend. You can easily make a list of the
> biggest processes by doing something like
> # grep VmSize /proc/*/status  | sort -nr -k 2  | head
> And then match the PIDs you get out of that to /proc/PID/cmdline to get
> the process names if PIDs aren't sufficient.
>
> If just getting the biggest process isn't enough, you can try grepping
> out VmRSS (which is non-swapped-out memory) from /proc and subtracting
> that from VmSize to get swapped out memory. Shouldn't be too difficult
> with your favorite scripting language.
>
> (sorry, I'm a bit busy so most of this is, unfortunately, left as an
> exercise for the reader. I figured it might be better than nothing, though)
>
>