[Techtalk] Question re: memory usage

[David Sumbler]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 housekm at fastmail.fm wrote:

> I'm having a difficult time telling what is eating all my memory when KDE
> is running.  I have a whopping <yeah, right> 94 megabytes of memory
> that's almost all used by the webbrowser and KPPD.  I seem to remember
> that only about half the amount of memory was being used in an earlier
> install.  The current one is RedHat 7.3 (soon to be 9.0).
>
> There's a little graphics thing that shows that almost all the memory is
> being used, but not what's doing it.  Does anyone know of a console
> command similar to df for memory?  Or even graphics, but console would be
> nice.

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probably tells you what you want to know, doesn't it?

David

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