On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Jack Coates wrote:

> Actually, it's capital M. One side note about 'top' -- X will appear to
> be quite large because it reports that it's using all the RAM on your
> video card too. Subtract the card's RAM and you'll get actual usage. For
> instance, looking at my 16M Voodoo 3 AGP:
> 
>  2605 root      16   0 97072  27M  4848 R     1.9  3.6  47:07 X
> 
> minus 16M = 11M actual memory usage.

Yes, it is captial. 'm' will turn off the memory display!

You can also press the 'f' (and 'F') to add/subtract different columns
if you wanted a more detail picture of memory.

Somewhat interesting note:
I used to work at a company that used a lot of DOS based 3270 emulators
scattered throughout the buildings. During some troubleshooting of the
Token-Ring network, I had set up a few Linux boxes with some network
monitoring software to help locate an intermittent beaconing problem.
Unfortunately, every once in a while someone would wander by and reset
the machine in hopes of getting back the 3270 emulator. Or they'd try to
login, get rejected, then open up a trouble ticket. I started
launching 'top' on these machines so that they'd not touch. It worked :).

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