"Christoph Purrucker" <gugi_at_bigfoot.de> wrote in message news:<bde73t$dfd$1_at_home.itg.ti.com>...
> > The problem however is that the memory is not freed when no scripts
> > are active. Rebooting the computer seems to be the only remedy to
> > reclaim mem.
> > Pim
>
> How do You check the memory? Using top You can sort all processes
> by memory usage (press M). Please tell us, what processes using
> most mem. vmstat is a also a very nice tool!
>
> cp
I use xosview. It dynamically shows the used+share/cache/buff/free mem
(+disk usage, CPU usage, swap, interrupts).
If I use top +M (nice! didn't know that) I see the following:
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
1548 root 9 0 22632 22M 1828 S 0.0 2.2 0:00 X
1378 t13dba 9 0 14164 13M 13448 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 oracle
1341 t13dba 9 0 13180 12M 12436 S 0.0 1.2 0:00 oracle
1309 t13dba 9 0 12828 12M 12092 S 0.0 1.2 0:00 oracle
1345 t13dba 9 0 9280 9280 8732 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 oracle
1311 t13dba 9 0 6916 6916 6468 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 oracle
1380 t13dba 9 0 6912 6912 6464 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 oracle
1343 t13dba 9 0 6856 6856 6408 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 oracle
1554 root 8 0 6596 6596 5912 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 kdm
1366 t13dba 9 0 5940 5940 5336 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 oracle
......
... etc
Received on Thu Jun 26 2003 - 08:16:05 CDT
