How to find the process which is caused system hung state?

 
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Old 09-25-2012
How to find the process which is caused system hung state?

when system is hung state due to swap, we will reboot it through ILO.

i want to know which process caused system hung.
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Old 09-25-2012
Hi Naveen,
I am not very familiar with swap but I think top or topas command's will give you the process which is taking most of the CPU
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