swap space usage

[Stephan Wonczak]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, catam wrote:

> Same info comes from ps :)
>
> ps axu|head -2

   Hmmm.... BSD syntax on linux ... I hate that :-)

> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> root         1  0.0  0.0  1516  376 ?        S     2006   0:28 init

   I usually use 'ps' that way to find 'biggest offenders'

# ps -e -o pid,rss,cmd|sort -n -k2

   From my experience, look for long-running python processes; they seem to 
be especially prone to memory leaks. Just yesterday I killed a 'greceptor' 
(part of the Ganglia monitor) that had grown to almost 2 GB.

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