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? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto
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