> On 29 July 2015, at 17:41, Doug Hardie <bc...@lafn.org> wrote:
> 
> I have several FreeBSD 9.3 systems that are using swap and I can’t figure out 
> what is doing it.  The key system has 6GB swap and currently it has over 2GB 
> in use.  ps shows only a kernel module [intr] with a W status.  Obviously 
> that isn’t using the space.  No other process shows a W in its status.  I 
> suspect this is somewhat related to the use of mmap in one application.  
> However, all of the mmaps in that application are file backed and thus 
> shouldn’t use swap.  How do I figure out what that swap space is being used 
> for?

UFS although that shouldn’t matter.  Swap does not use a file system.  If it 
did, it would be easy to figure out.

Top doesn’t show much.  
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