increasing memory usage

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 01:16:22PM -0700, ken wrote:
> 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.
> 

For that type of granularity, you might want to look at using
SystemTap.  It comes with several very good example scripts that might
get you started....

Ray