memory being used?

[Larry]

On 09/05/2011 01:17 PM, NoOp wrote:
> 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):
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> 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.
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> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/memstat.1.html
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*Why not try to view which program is using memory try too use TOP!

Larry

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