get into top.
hit 'f'
then arrow down to %MEM is selected.
hit escape
cut-n-paste that screen it should have the %MEM column from highest
mem process to lowest mem process.

that will show the top memory users, and may explain why the machine
is/was swapping.

I have seen firefox do it, I have seen random processes lose their
mind and suck up a lot of ram.

I once had a 'bad' awk script that ate all of the free ram on a 1TB
machine (some 500G).


On Sun, May 10, 2026 at 1:42 PM Joe Zeff <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 5/10/26 7:42 AM, Marco Moock wrote:
> >
> > Because it only shows the amount of memory used.
>
> It also shows the amount of Swap used.  The poster was claiming that it
> was running out of Swap, and I wanted to see the report, but he couldn't
> be bothered to include it.
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