memory being used?

James Womack james.womack at virginmedia.com
Thu Sep 8 16:27:14 UTC 2011


htop allows you to order processes by memory usage very easily.

On 05/09/11 18:07, 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
>






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