Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

[Michael Mol]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote:
> Michael Mol writes:
>
>> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Dale writes:
>> >
>> >> Is there a way to find out what is using swap?  Maybe something
>> >> related to the video is on swap which at times can be slow,
>> >> certainly slower than ram.
>> >>
>> >> I have always wondered how to find this out myself.
>> >
>> > Me too, so when I had this sudden swap problem for the first time, I
>> > searched for a method to do this and found a script here:
>> > http://northernmost.org/blog/find-out-what-is-using-your-swap/
>> >
>> > There's lots of information for all processes in /proc/<pid>/. Trying
>> > to read /proc/<pid>/mem (I think it was this file) in mc was not such
>> > a good idea, the system froze with lots of HD activity, and after
>> > half an hour I rebooted with Alt-SysRq-{K,E,I,S,U,B}.
>> >
>> > I improved the script a little, it allows sorting by PID, size and
>> > name, and can restrict the output to specific processes or show only
>> > those using more swap than specified. If interested you can download
>> > it here: http://www.wonkology.org/utils/getswap
>> > You need to be root to see processes you do not own.
>> >
>> > But of course, I forgot to run it after the sudden swap problem
>> > happened lately. So I still do not know what was going on there. I'll
>> > wait for the next time it happens.
>> >
>> >        Wonko
>> >
>>
>> sys-process/htop
>
> Huh? I only see the total amount of swap being used, but no entry per
> process.

Hit F2, and go down to 'columns'. Anything per-process found under
/proc can be added as a column.

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