If you run the command... ps axo %cpu,%mem,pid,cmd | grep -v "^.CPU" | sort -nr | head -n 10
...you'll get a list of processes sorted by cpu and memory consumption. In my case, I get... [d531][waltdnes][~] ps axo %cpu,%mem,pid,cmd | grep -v "^.CPU" | sort -nr | head -n 10 43.6 12.4 13976 /home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/palemoon -new-instance -p slashdot 1.0 4.2 2650 /usr/bin/X :0 -nosilk -config xorg.conf -auth /home/waltdnes/.serverauth.2629 0.9 6.8 5278 /home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/palemoon -new-instance -p palemoon 0.8 7.0 7127 /home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/palemoon -new-instance -p dslr 0.4 5.4 13912 /home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/palemoon -new-instance -p graphs 0.1 30.2 4981 /usr/bin/gnumeric worldtemps/netair/danomnick1000.gnumeric 0.1 4.8 5383 /home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/palemoon -new-instance -p puppy 0.0 5.2 6765 /usr/bin/gnumeric /home/waltdnes/worldtemps/solarflux/solarflux.gnumeric 0.0 2.5 5106 /usr/bin/gnumeric worldtemps/netair/monuah.gnumeric 0.0 2.5 5075 /usr/bin/gnumeric worldtemps/netair/monrss4.gnumeric There are some programs that I would much rather keep open, versus shutting down and restarting all over again. But keeping them all open uses resources, especially on a 10-year-old CORE2 with 3 gigabytes of RAM (The thing refuses to die). Is there a way to forcibly swap out or freeze a specific PID, until I need to get back to it again? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
