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