[Gllug] Re: Memory usage

Russell Howe rhowe at siksai.co.uk
Wed Oct 12 22:38:02 UTC 2005


On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 07:26:57AM +0100, Peter Childs wrote:
> I've just tried ps -FA --sort resident and discovered that openoffice
> is a proabable cause as it seamed to be taking up about 1/3 of my
> memory after only one night in usage.

Running top(1) and pressing M (capital 'm') should sort by memory usage.
I think 'M' is a deprecated shortcut, but it works for now, at least in
the version of top included in Debian unstable.

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