increasing memory usage

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:26:04AM -0700, ken wrote:
> Has anyone experienced on their machines the amount of memory and swap
> used to be ever increasing?  This is more of a server problem because it
> takes a week for all the memory and swap to run out (and then, of
> course, the system hangs).
> 
> On this note, are there any tools for examining the contents of swap in
> order to see which processes are holding it?
> 

You'll probably have pretty good luck by just starting up 'top' and
hitting 'M' to sort by memory usage.

Ray