[NTLUG:Discuss] Program to view which programs are filling Swap

[Robert Pearson]

On 4/20/05, Ralph Green, Jr. <sfreader at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Howdy,
>   Isn't that what the Virt column in top shows?
> Good day,
> Ralph
> 
> On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:40 -0500, David Simmons wrote:
> > am trying to find a program that will help me to investigate what
> > process is writing/filling up swap?
> 

I just went into "top" setup and added a "SWAP" column by typing "f"
and then selecting "p" for SWAP.
VIRT is RESIDENT plus SWAP if it has to swap. 

The real trick is figuring out what the application is doing with
swap. Is it swapped out waiting on resources? Is it building temp
files or data in swap? Looking at paging might help figure this out.

Thanks,

Robert