Why am I using swap?

[Mike McCarty]

Mike McGrath wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
>>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dan Track
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 3:05 AM
>>To: jvian10 at charter.net; For users of Fedora Core releases
>>Subject: Re: Why am I using swap?
>>
>>On 8/8/05, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:

[snip]

> run a "ps aux"
> 
> It will return a:
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND

[snip]

> root         8  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        S<   Aug06   0:00 [khelper]
> root         9  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        S<   Aug06   0:00 [kthread]
> =====================^^^
> 
> That column could shed some light as to what's taking up all your
> memory.

Great idea!

$ ps aux | sort +3 -g -r
jmccarty  5057  1.3 28.7 187060 71372 ?      S    Aug02 134:40
    /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.8/mozilla-bin -UILocale en-US
    http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html
jmccarty 19166  1.7 14.5 106808 36084 ?      S    Aug08  13:51
    /home/jmccarty/bin/thunderbirddir/thunderbird-bin
root      4285  8.4 11.0 50424 27432 ?       R    Aug02 845:42 
/usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
jmccarty  6566  0.0  6.2 39816 15560 ?       S    Aug02   5:11 
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal
jmccarty  4602  0.0  2.8 72968 6996 ?        S    Aug02   0:25 nautilus 
--no-default-window --sm-client-id default3
xfs       3971  0.0  2.7 15920 6788 ?        S    Aug02   0:25 xfs 
-droppriv -daemon
jmccarty  4610  0.0  2.7 32528 6832 ?        RN   Aug02   2:22 
/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui --sm-client-id default5

So my web-browser is using 1/3 of my memory, and my mailer is
using 1/7 of my memory, and X is using 1/9 of my memory. Very
revealing.

Mike
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