Fedora Users — Re: Why am I using swap?

Mike McGrath wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Track
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 3:05 AM
To: jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Why am I using swap?

On 8/8/05, Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


[snip]

run a "ps aux"

It will return a:
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND


[snip]

root         8  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        S<   Aug06   0:00 [khelper]
root         9  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        S<   Aug06   0:00 [kthread]
=====================^^^

That column could shed some light as to what's taking up all your
memory.


Great idea!

$ ps aux | sort +3 -g -r
jmccarty  5057  1.3 28.7 187060 71372 ?      S    Aug02 134:40
   /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.8/mozilla-bin -UILocale en-US
   http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html
jmccarty 19166  1.7 14.5 106808 36084 ?      S    Aug08  13:51
   /home/jmccarty/bin/thunderbirddir/thunderbird-bin

root 4285 8.4 11.0 50424 27432 ? R Aug02 845:42/usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7jmccarty 6566 0.0 6.2 39816 15560 ? S Aug02 5:11/usr/bin/gnome-terminaljmccarty 4602 0.0 2.8 72968 6996 ? S Aug02 0:25 nautilus--no-default-window --sm-client-id default3xfs 3971 0.0 2.7 15920 6788 ? S Aug02 0:25 xfs-droppriv -daemonjmccarty 4610 0.0 2.7 32528 6832 ? RN Aug02 2:22/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui --sm-client-id default5


So my web-browser is using 1/3 of my memory, and my mailer is
using 1/7 of my memory, and X is using 1/9 of my memory. Very
revealing.

Mike
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