Re: Specific Swap Usage

Arne Schwabe wrote:
 > If there is currently no ways to see which processes allocates how much
 > swap space are there any pointers where to look to implement such a feature?

The problem is that there is no one-to-one relationship
between memory pages (including those paged out to swap)
and processes.  Some pages belong to multiple processes,
i.e. they're shared (e.g. libraries, IPC shared memory).
Therefore it is very non-trivial to specify exactly the
amount of memory (or swap space) allocated to a process.

Part of the problem is that different people often mean
different things when talking about "memory" or "swap".
Also note that swapping and paging are different things.

If your goal is to find out which process is causing the
exhaustion of swap, the best way is to record the SIZE
("RSS" in ps) of all processes in order to see which one
keeps growing.  Usually it's rather easy to find.

Best regards
   Oliver

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