021128 H. Narfi Stefansson wrote:
> On Thursday 28 November 2002 13:54, Philip Webb wrote:
>> is there a command or utility which would show
>> which processes are using how much of which parts of memory?
>> 'free' gives some numbers,
>> but just what is using 'buffers' & 'cached' is unknown
>> nor does it show what is 'used +/- buffers/cache':
>> the last number seems to vary unpredictably.
>> 'gkrellm' is pretty & quite good for CPU;
>> 'top' & 'ksysguard' give a whole table, but lack explanation.
> Run "top" (without the quotes) on the command line.
> Then if you hit shift-M, you will sort the processes by memory usage.

thanx: KDE really is a memory hog, isn't it?!  waiting for XFCE 4.0 ...
do you know if the Top % refers to usage with or without buffer/cache?

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