021129 David E. Fox wrote: >> is there a command or utility which would show >> which processes are using how much of which parts of memory? > I'm not sure what you mean by 'which parts' of memory.
well, 'free' divides it into 'total, used, free, shared, buffers, cached': it's the last 3 columns which i don't fully understand. 'shared' is always 0 , so it mb used only on multi-user systems; 'buffers, cached' seem to make use of otherwise empty space, as the 'used' figure is usually close to 'total'. > If you look at output from ps -aux > you will see some fields that are useful, however: > root 1 0.0 0.0 1288 84 ? S Oct25 0:06 init > root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Oct25 0:04 [keventd] > root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Oct25 0:00 [kapmd] > root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN Oct25 0:04 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] > ** ** > These two fields are virtual size and resident size. > The first is a measure of how much RAM the process thinks it needs > and the second is the actual amount of RAM used by the process. > Other indicators are 'SW' for swapped. thanks! that's exactly what i wanted as far as 'used-buffers/cached' is concerned! -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto
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