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.

Narfi.

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