memory being used?

[NoOp]

On 09/05/2011 10:07 AM, 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
> 

Try memstat (universe repository):

Description: Identify what's using up virtual memory
 Lists all the processes, executables, and shared libraries
 that are using up virtual memory. It's helpful to see how the
 shared memory is used and which 'old' libs are loaded.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/memstat.1.html