On 16 May 2011 12:52, Andy Smith
<andy@bitfolk.com> wrote:
Hi Philip,
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:47:38PM +0100, philip taylor wrote:
> Is there a way, to work out what is using ram, and how much. to see what is
> sucking ram?
Can you post the top part of the output of "top" please (down to and
including the line that starts with "Swap:")?
Also the output of "free -m".
Is there a particular problem you are trying to solve?
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi Andy
top - 12:00:19 up 6 days, 11:30, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.08, 0.13
Tasks: 78 total, 2 running, 76 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.5%us, 1.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.2%st
Mem: 233476k total, 213324k used, 20152k free, 4504k buffers
Swap: 262132k total, 31252k used, 230880k free, 28176k cached
$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 228 208 19 0 4 27
-/+ buffers/cache: 176 51
Swap: 255 30 225
the aim is to try and work out, why the ram use sometimes wildly shifts.
PMT