On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 07:12:59PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > From: "Jack Raats" <[email protected]>
> > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:17:05 +0100
> > Sender: [email protected]
> >
> > It looks like that there may be a memory leak of my swap space with one of
> > the processes that is running.
> > Big question: How can I determine which process is responsible.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> ps -aux Look for processes with large values in the VSZ column.
>
> I'm sure that there are other ways to see this, but that's an easy
> one. You can, of course, pipe the output to sort and use the -k 5 -n
> options.
I believe he should be looking for a process that has a large value in
RSS ("RES" in top), not VSZ ("SIZE" in top).
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