How to determine which process is generating page faults

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Issue

  • Page faults are being observed on the system in sar or similar tools and the process(es) causing them is/are unknown

    12:00:01 AM  pgpgin/s pgpgout/s   fault/s  majflt/s  pgfree/s pgscank/s pgscand/s pgsteal/s    %vmeff
12:50:01 AM   1226.99    170.54  13328.12    110.56   7537.61      0.00     16.81     16.26     96.74
01:00:02 AM   4596.70    236.00  15292.38    231.96   8995.12    759.54     72.39    808.27     97.16
01:10:01 AM    610.41    285.40  14902.04     64.80   8788.38     90.38    331.67    377.95     89.55
01:20:02 AM    317.74    215.17  11989.60     56.56   7336.79      0.00    108.94    107.33     98.53

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL)

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