How to find the list of processes which are consuming more swap space?

[bullz]

Hello Guruz,

How to find the list of process which are consuming more swap space?
My OS is Linux debian XX.

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2075656 2022200 53456 0 3484 484544
-/+ buffers/cache: 1534172 541484
Swap: 2000084 1733660 266424

Please advise.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

ps has means for showing how much swap space a process is using.

As a matter of fact, top can also show you this information.

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/using/ps

http://groups.google.co.in/group/comp.sys.hp.hpux/browse_thread/thread/7c4ac0033ce706c8/600ccdc16fd04f0b?lnk=gst&q=glance&rnum=15

SEP

[avizen9 · Accepted solution]

Yes top can show good info try this
open top command
press O (capital)followd by p

[bullz]

Yes.! useful info. Thanx

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

In fact, I don't think that this info (how much swap) is important for troubleshooting of high swaping problem.

I suggest to review processes which take many *memory*, not swap.