On 01/11/14 22:09, Victor Churchill wrote:
I've tried using 'htop' ( a rather more feature-ful version of 'top' :
apt-get install htop) in situations like this; you can sort by
memory-use to see what programs are using you physical and/or virtual
memory. But sometimes it doesn't seem to tell the whole story: its
account of what memory is being used by active applications and the
rest does not seem to tally with the overall picture. But it might
give some clue...
On 1 November 2014 22:01, Tim <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 01/11/14 21:46, Victor Churchill wrote:
How big is your swap partition? ( shell command 'free' will
tell you if required)
On 1 November 2014 21:30, Tim <[email protected]
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<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
Is there any program or anyway to find out what programs
are using
my swapdisk\space??
The reason I wish to know is that since installing the latest
SolydXK update my swap file usage has gone through the
roof. On my
4gb of memory, it has gone from 2% to 5% pre update to
around 80%
to 85% and I am running no more than I was pre update. My PC
normally runs 24/7. I have just logged out and logged back in
again (with 13 days and 7hrs running on the clock) and my swap
file is showing 2% used which is the normal, but since the
update
I have noticed three times now that my swap file usage has
crept
up to 80%+. I normally only use a large amount of swap
space if I
have several gimp windows open.
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Hi Victor
Swap partition is 5.5gb in size
Tim
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Thanks Victor, I have htop installed and did in fact use it but it did
not give a particularly clear view of what was going on which is why I
asked if there was a more specific program for looking at the swap file.
I will wait till it happens again and then use htop and go from there
and if required ask the questions with the result of htop to hand.
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