On my computer, X is using 126M, java is using 75M.
The K media player is using between 15 and 20% CPU, ktop is using 10% (fast
refresh) setiathome the rest. But for some reason my CPU usage adds up to
200% :)
Another way to get memory usage info is to poke around /proc. Not highly
recommended if you don't know what you are doing though.
John
On Monday 20 November 2000 17:32, chesty wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 04:40:33PM +1100, Alister Waller wrote:
> > Whats a good way/tool for monitoring memory usage and the processes that
> > are using it?
>
> Beats me. I would like to know more about this sort of
> stuff, though.
>
> Top can sort processes by memory usage rather than cpu,
> press "M" while in top, man top will explain what all the
> fields mean.
>
> I also use ps, ie
>
> ps -A -o pid,majflt,minflt,trs,drs,rss,sz,%mem,start,comm --sort majflt
>
> I normally sort by majflt, because thats the number of times
> a process has needed to load a page of memory in from swap.
> (Thats my wording, I could be wrong)
> And swapping slows the whole system down, so I want to know whos
> swapping the most.
>
> Be careful if you're comparing majflt's of different processes,
> one process may have been running for an hour, and the other
> one a month.
>
> Also look at procinfo and procinfo(8)
> proc(5),ps(1),top(1)
>
> ps, and to some extent top, only tells you about process that
> are running right now, those are the processes that normally hang
> around for a long time, they don't normally record short lived
> processes. And they don't tell you about a process that died
> sometime ago.
> I have no idea how to record those, but I would like to know.
> Perhaps acct is the answer, but I haven't looked at it.
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