How do I determine which process is using swap space?
Issue
- System is utilising swap heavily and need to determine which processes are swapping
- How do I check which process is using swap space on my system?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 3 (2.6.18-128.el5 and newer)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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