swap space usage

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Robert Gravsjö wrote:
> catam skrev:
 
> > 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.
> 
> Thanks for swift and good responses! In addition to your advice I also 
> found that top can show swap information (use 'f' and add swap by 'p').

Top and pressing M (uppercase) does sort the processes by memory usage, 
like this:

top - 16:25:42 up 140 days,  5:49,  5 users,  load average: 1.63, 2.10, 2.17
Tasks: 1879 total,   2 running, 1876 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.1% us,  2.2% sy,  0.0% ni, 80.9% id, 12.3% wa,  0.0% hi,  3.5% si
Mem:  32459804k total, 31925940k used,   533864k free,  4306520k buffers
Swap: 61544936k total,    30372k used, 61514564k free, 21342780k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND             
19328 emoenke   15   0 1574m 1.5g 1120 D  3.2  4.8   1:50.58 rsync                
17456 emoenke   16   0  814m 790m 1120 S  0.0  2.5   2:27.55 rsync                
17457 nobody    16   0  813m 787m 1268 S  0.0  2.5   3:11.41 rsyncd               
16190 nobody    16   0 76744  59m 1308 S  0.6  0.2   2:00.80 rsyncd               
21168 nobody    15   0 42168  25m 1308 S  0.6  0.1   0:12.02 rsyncd               
 5978 nobody    15   0 43372  22m 1324 S  0.6  0.1  15:55.18 rsyncd               
18580 nobody    15   0 39020  21m 1308 S  0.0  0.1   0:22.37 rsyncd               
21864 nobody    16   0 34608  17m 1308 R  5.1  0.1   0:39.62 rsyncd               
22337 nobody    15   0 34092  16m 1312 S  0.0  0.1   0:04.21 rsyncd               
 9517 nobody    15   0 32324  16m 1324 S  0.3  0.1   1:14.36 rsyncd               
32359 named     25   0 32692 8972 1480 S  0.0  0.0   0:24.74 named                


Cheers -e
-- 
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)