memory being used?

[Alan Pope]

On 5 September 2011 18:07, Noah <noah-list at enabled.com> wrote:
> :~$ free -m
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:           768        745         22          0          5        265
> -/+ buffers/cache:        474        293
> Swap:         1535        165       1370
>
> currently I see that I am riding my memory almost 100% utilized.  I want to
> know what program is using that memory and how it is allocated.  how can I
> do that?
>

top / htop / ps aux.

If it's a desktop then "System Monitor".

Be aware that not all the memory will be in use by programs. Some of
it will be used by the kernel for buffers/cache and will be released
when needed by applications. So don't necessarily think that "All my
memory is used == bad".

Al.