Subject: Re: What's in my swap
To: Joel CARNAT <joel@carnat.net>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: current-users
Date: 08/01/2006 12:31:01
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:27:21PM +0200, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> I'd like to know why my (server) machine uses swap.
> I checked 'top' and 'vmstat' but didn't find any information related to
> content.

I think you are asking yourself the wrong question. Applications do not use
swap, the system uses swap when a lot of memory is allocated by applications.

So just use top, vmstat, ps or any other tools you like to find applications
that have a lot of memory allocated.

Martin