[ale] System losing memory

Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Wed May 2 09:53:28 EDT 2007


Warren Myers wrote:
> top only shows the most heavy cpu usage, to the best of my knowledge
> 
> so, if you have a process that's eating RAM, but not any CPU time, it could
> easily be on the next page of output

run top, select to sort by memory usage

When top's running, enter: F to select sort field.

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