On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > > Then 'htop' can help you find processes that are consuming memory. > The default is to sort the display by percent CPU usage. But you can > change that to display sorted by resident set size. Press F6 and then > use the cursor keys to change the sort-by setting to RES and then > Enter. That will then display the largest memory consuming programs > that are in memory at this time up top. Those are programs that are > consuming the most memory and are actively using that memory. (If the > process consumes a lot of memory but doesn't use it then it can be > paged out to disk. It might consume very little resident memory in > that case and probably isn't really a problem. Looking at the VIRTual > process size is also useful.) > > Look for processes that are consuming all of your memory. >
Thank you so much Bob :-) You are really kind to explain such a lot :-D It is the many Virtual Machines that are taking memory. I am going to get a bigger machine that supports svm to ron them. Thanks a million :-) --Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikqpfn=qrfmfixegtre93kyqc010lgpz7u12...@mail.gmail.com
