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How can I figure out which programs are using up swap space? My current memory usage is 2.9GiB out of 3.0GiB used(and I though I had 4GB, I need to check into that) and 1.3Gib of swap used.

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In top type fp to add swap space display and then Fp to sort according to swap usage

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Thanks. The numbers are not very correct(but I think I remember getting the correct number is not possible?) It said amarok was using over 700MB of swap, but when I closed it the amount of swap used barely dropped at all. – Echo Jun 10 '10 at 16:02
The value includes memory that is shared between different processes. You can use memstat -p PID to see the shared libs used by the process with the given PID along with their memory usage (total, not onyl swapped out). – Florian Diesch Jun 10 '10 at 17:11
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