Which Process Is Taking More Swap Linux?
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Which process is using more swap in Linux?

Linux Find Out What Process Are Using Swap Space

  1. /proc/meminfo – This file reports statistics about memory usage on the system. …
  2. /proc/${PID}/smaps , /proc/${PID}/status , and /proc/${PID}/stat : Use these files to find information about memory, pages and swap used by each process using its PID.

How can I tell which process is using swap?

On the /proc/’processPID’/status you can find that information on the field VmSwap . With this command you can list all process that are using swap.

Sophia Al-Mansoor

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