top - 22:01:28 up 20 days, 11:47, 2 users, load average: 2.01, 2.04, 2.03
Tasks: 535 total, 1 running, 529 sleeping, 4 stopped, 1 zombie
%Cpu(s): 13.8 us, 4.5 sy, 0.0 ni, 80.3 id, 0.3 wa, 0.6 hi, 0.5 si, 0.0 st
MiB Mem : 31955.0 total, 4955.0 free, 18807.6 used, 10439.5 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 24576.0 total, 6098.9 free, 18477.1 used. 13147.4 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4693 pdupre 20 0 9944.5m 3.0g 103960 S 46.8 9.5 30,55
gnome-shell
15076 pdupre 20 0 3076808 1.4g 86232 S 0.7 4.6 180:21.32 lyx
944560 pdupre 20 0 13.1g 880080 288948 S 12.0 2.7 35:02.61 firefox
978925 pdupre 20 0 3599736 676956 135320 S 0.3 2.1 18:11.21 Isolated
Web Co
4295 pdupre 20 0 5460868 587692 411076 S 10.3 1.8 10,15 Xorg
945341 pdupre 20 0 3399236 501476 135260 S 0.0 1.5 3:21.08 Isolated
Web Co
205406 pdupre 20 0 1087300 478040 87020 S 0.0 1.5 7:40.83
xournalpp
946388 pdupre 20 0 11.2g 472168 131312 S 6.6 1.4 5:09.99 Isolated
Web Co
261137 pdupre 20 0 1002540 436740 70520 S 0.0 1.3 4:07.45
xournalpp
1071317 pdupre 20 0 3305140 427452 131772 S 0.0 1.3 0:45.27 Isolated
Web Co
944764 pdupre 20 0 3324376 408668 105660 S 0.3 1.2 2:29.04
WebExtensions
948825 pdupre 20 0 48.9g 404944 203112 S 1.7 1.2 3:49.50
vivaldi-bin
961040 pdupre 20 0 3252576 397696 121352 S 2.0 1.2 3:11.81 Isolated
Web Co
971800 pdupre 20 0 11.2g 376848 121424 S 0.0 1.2 0:44.61 Isolated
Web Co
1018720 pdupre 20 0 3225892 374928 120696 S 0.0 1.1 0:32.19 Isolated
Web Co
873459 pdupre 20 0 1058356 354040 69088 S 0.3 1.1 22:50.06
xournalpp
949356 pdupre 20 0 1392.4g 334204 157252 S 12.6 1.0 56:38.64
vivaldi-bin
1101101 pdupre 20 0 3093012 285592 124204 S 3.3 0.9 1:34.95 Isolated
Web Co
356794 pdupre 20 0 907576 278108 69072 S 0.0 0.8 31:09.34
xournalpp
4951 pdupre 20 0 2936692 277808 105480 S 0.0 0.8 10:52.07
gnome-software
1076349 pdupre 20 0 3043216 277280 117692 S 0.0 0.8 0:08.91 Isolated
Web Co
2259332 pdupre 20 0 1073712 267436 65868 S 0.0 0.8 17:26.10
xournalpp
986170 pdupre 20 0 3024592 261884 118068 S 0.0 0.8 0:30.55 Isolated
Web Co
953740 pdupre 20 0 3026500 256208 125032 S 0.3 0.8 1:42.02 Isolated
Web Co
1017937 pdupre 20 0 3016008 247096 115288 S 0.3 0.8 0:28.51 Isolated
Web Co
949266 pdupre 20 0 1396.1g 240124 133748 S 0.0 0.7 1:08.18
vivaldi-bin
2122484 pdupre 20 0 1848500 236628 63452 S 0.3 0.7 3:25.06
mutter-x11-fram
944856 pdupre 20 0 2934400 228588 104392 S 0.0 0.7 0:56.42 Isolated
Web Co
961671 pdupre 20 0 2977020 217572 111120 S 0.0 0.7 0:31.47 Isolated
Web Co
979725 pdupre 20 0 2977516 213200 108284 S 0.0 0.7 0:18.03 Isolated
Web Co
978455 pdupre 20 0 2978520 211788 109808 S 0.0 0.6 0:31.60 Isolated
Web Co
1007525 pdupre 20 0 3019720 208488 122052 S 0.3 0.6 0:44.01 Isolated
Web Co
3997414 pdupre 20 0 939172 199504 73096 S 0.3 0.6 8:59.99
xournalpp
944692 pdupre 20 0 2939312 196724 108044 S 0.0 0.6 0:38.57
Privileged Cont
948873 pdupre 20 0 49.1g 196676 123816 S 9.3 0.6 39:43.97
vivaldi-bin
948875 pdupre 20 0 48.7g 196408 107936 S 2.7 0.6 2:15.59
vivaldi-bin
1017494 pdupre 20 0 2940996 182612 109052 S 0.0 0.6 0:19.80 Isolated
Web Co
1112864 pdupre 20 0 1392.4g 155284 116244 S 6.3 0.5 0:07.37
vivaldi-bin
4102532 pdupre 20 0 795228 152836 71248 S 1.3 0.5 7:32.68
xournalpp
1101094 pdupre 20 0 2875168 145156 99648 S 0.0 0.4 0:01.80 Isolated
Web Co
1018073 pdupre 20 0 2886208 142960 92344 S 0.0 0.4 0:07.95 Isolated
Web Co
946381 pdupre 20 0 2879240 138924 91292 S 0.3 0.4 0:18.12 Isolated
Web Co
9283 pdupre 20 0 3246148 138376 78900 S 0.0 0.4 12:20.23
protonvpn-app
1112837 pdupre 20 0 1392.4g 134036 102504 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.69
vivaldi-bin
948950 pdupre 20 0 1394.2g 133240 90960 S 0.0 0.4 0:01.32
vivaldi-bin
1113572 pdupre 20 0 1392.3g 128100 101656 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.12
vivaldi-bin
1014064 pdupre 20 0 1160220 126180 66860 S 0.0 0.4 0:07.18 evince
1112735 pdupre 20 0 1392.4g 123736 98648 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.15
vivaldi-bin
4102412 pdupre 20 0 834196 123344 72092 S 0.0 0.4 6:56.19
xournalpp
1111878 pdupre 20 0 1392.4g 120776 97924 S 1.0 0.4 0:00.65
vivaldi-bin
1112777 pdupre 20 0 1392.4g 119204 96712 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.11
vivaldi-bin
1112762 pdupre 20 0 1392.3g 116144 93120 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.07
vivaldi-bin
3244749 pdupre 20 0 1651244 114280 75288 S 0.0 0.3 2:00.26 evince
1112836 pdupre 20 0 1392.3g 113984 91924 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.07
vivaldi-bin
3225805 pdupre 20 0 982404 108728 85372 S 0.3 0.3 16:38.91
xournalpp
5206 pdupre 20 0 1061520 108220 40092 S 2.0 0.3 14:35.40
gnome-terminal-
3423533 pdupre 20 0 898676 108104 65672 S 0.7 0.3 9:45.75
xournalpp
>
> 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:
> >
> > 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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