Why would my server be swapping...

[Wouter van Vliet]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:10:13 +0100, Douglas Furlong
<douglas.furlong at firebox.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 15:36 +0200, Wouter van Vliet wrote:
> > > > > You left out the kernel version you use. Swap usage varies between
> > > > > kernel versions.
> > > > >
> > > > > Mem:    515828k total,   354288k used,   161540k free,   115340k buffers
> > > > > Swap:  1048568k total,      132k used,  1048436k free,    92048k cached
> > > > >
> > > > > This is from my FC3t2 box.
> > > > >
> > > > > N.Emile...
> > > > > --
> > > >
> > > > I'm using FC2, don't actually know :$:$ what kernel is currently
> > > > active, or how to find out. These are the installed kernels (according
> > > > to rpm -q kernel).
> > > >
> > > > kernel-2.6.5-1.358
> > > > kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.3
> > > > kernel-2.6.8-1.521
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Wouter
> > > >
> > > The easiest way is with the uname command.
> > >
> > > uname -a will give you the lot.
> > >
> >
> > uname -a gives:
> >
> > Linux ********* 2.6.6-1.435.2.3smp #1 SMP Thu Jul 1 08:36:21 EDT 2004
> > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >
> > Now, what does that tell you about my swapping concerns?
> 
> Absolutely nothing what so ever, but I never told you that I could fix
> your swapping problem, I was just telling you how to find out your
> kernel version.
> 

hehe, well I wasn't referring to only you, Douglas but everybody whow
as waiting for the output of uname. And i do appriciate the
information you gave me. Though I've been running around in Linux
World for a while now, I haven't found the time to get myself a lot
further than just using it as a webserver.

Anyway, you happen to know a command that like really tells me what
processes are consuming memory? I know top, but no matter how close I
look I cannot find all of the memory used in it's output.

Thanks!