Negative caching

[Hal Burgiss]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 02:03:02AM -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 	Hi Hal, I have trouble reading your "top" because I use large fonts on
> my Thunderbird email client. I am just not able to see which item is
> using a giant amount of RAM. This will tell you what is wrong.

Karl, its atop, not top (similar but better IMO). Its not showing a process
list. I'd get another email client. I'd suggest mutt.

Here is a partial traditional top output sorted by memory usage:

top - 10:19:19 up 1 day, 16:02,  2 users,  load average: 0.46, 0.52, 0.39
Tasks: 178 total,   3 running, 175 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 11.6%us,  8.9%sy,  0.0%ni, 72.2%id,  7.0%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1016248k total,  1004380k used,    11868k free,     1640k buffers
Swap:  3004112k total,   849208k used,  2154904k free,   396508k cached

 PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 20   0  292m 102m 4668 S  0.7 10.4  46:54.52 firefox
 20   0  394m  55m  27m S  7.0  5.6  46:51.56 Xorg
 20   0  157m  55m 5572 S  0.3  5.6   2:48.29 skype.real
 20   0  107m  52m 3892 S  2.0  5.3   3:13.38 chrome
 20   0 99.1m  39m 3740 S  0.7  4.0  15:26.90 chrome
 20   0 99.5m  39m 3172 S  0.0  4.0   1:01.20 chrome
 20   0 89812  28m 3212 S  0.0  2.9   0:22.26 chrome
 20   0  146m  23m 7444 S  0.3  2.4   8:02.60 chrome
 20   0  163m  19m 7668 R  2.7  1.9   2:47.28 konsole
 20   0 72104  15m 3256 S  0.0  1.5   0:01.54 chrome
 20   0  578m  15m 2856 S  1.7  1.5  14:41.22 compiz.real
 20   0  156m  13m 5344 S  0.0  1.3   1:22.87 ntop
 20   0 60932  13m 8588 S  0.0  1.3   0:00.60 apache2
 20   0 67060  12m 8864 S  0.0  1.3   0:04.29 apache2
 20   0 61128  11m 8340 S  0.0  1.2   0:03.75 apache2
 20   0 61108  10m 7156 S  0.0  1.1   0:03.51 apache2
 20   0 60768  10m 7072 S  0.0  1.1   0:02.92 apache2
 20   0 60980  10m 6608 S  0.0  1.0   0:00.55 apache2
 20   0 61196  10m 6600 S  0.0  1.0   0:03.78 apache2
 20   0 49016  10m 3584 S  0.0  1.0   0:04.96 twitux
 20   0 42972 9.9m 5572 S  0.0  1.0   0:00.08 gvim
 20   0 60880 9.8m 6328 S  0.0  1.0   0:00.58 apache2
 20   0 60524 9952 6324 S  0.0  1.0   0:03.24 apache2
 20   0 49852 9152 4716 S  0.7  0.9   3:01.36 gnome-panel
 20   0 92692 7660 2876 S  0.0  0.8   0:14.93 python
 20   0 44228 7572 2864 S  0.0  0.7   0:01.27 python
 20   0 20380 5076 3504 S  0.0  0.5   0:15.31 gtk-window-deco
 20   0 80836 5064 3340 S  0.0  0.5   0:06.47 nautilus
 20   0  137m 4776 3512 S  0.0  0.5   0:12.88 klipper
 20   0  126m 4672 2196 S  0.0  0.5   0:49.48 mysqld
 20   0 83248 4392 2756 S  0.0  0.4   0:13.50 evince
 20   0 62276 4056 3348 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.62 knotify4
 20   0 39216 3936 2844 S  0.0  0.4   0:02.40 update-notifier
 20   0 61172 3888 2004 S  0.0  0.4   0:02.84 apache2
 20   0 69548 3556 2844 S  0.0  0.3   0:03.63 kded4
 20   0 38336 3432 1272 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.33 vim
 20   0 36192 3308 2500 S  0.0  0.3   3:40.58 netspeed_applet
 20   0 19428 3228 2560 S  1.0  0.3  24:25.50 gkrellm
 20   0 34476 3080 2320 S  0.0  0.3   0:01.98 indicator-apple
 20   0 30544 2876 2212 S  0.0  0.3   0:22.23 gnome-settings-

This is pretty usuable right now. Not even close to thinking an evil 'sudo reboot'
thought (yet).

-- 
Hal