memory being used?
Rashkae
ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Mon Sep 5 17:19:42 UTC 2011
On 09/05/2011 01:07 PM, Noah wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I would like to look at what programs are utilizing what memory.
>
> :~$ 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?
>
> Cheers,
> Noah
>
There's no easy answer in demand paging systems with shared memory like
Linux. Without going into deep magic (details of which I forget, but
involving looking up the various memory mapping of processes in the
/prcc system), the best you can do is something like "sudo ps axe" and
examine the processes with the larger RSS value as culprits. However,
the assumption you are making in your cases in incorrect. Processes are
only occupying a little over half your ram (with a humble 165MB of swap
being used.). The rest is cache. Available and free memory will always
be used as Cache, so memory should always 'fill' very quickly.
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