How do I determine which process has data on the swap spaces?

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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?
  • How much data is swapped-out by a certain process?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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