increasing memory usage

[ken]

On 09/17/2009 12:26 PM Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> 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

Ray, thanks for your reply.  Yeah, I've used "top" a lot, but it doesn't
really give the granularity I'm looking for...  so the reason for asking
after another tool, one to read the pages in swap, their origin and status.

tnx++,
ken