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Determine which processes are using swap in Linux

Some servers may have several applications, each running in their own allocated piece of RAM and SWAP.  It seems easy enough to use `top` to determine memory usage, but it wasn’t so obvious (to me) as to how to determine swap usage.  A nifty little command called smem to the rescue. So what is smem?  It is a “Report memory…

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