[Techtalk] Question re: memory usage

[Mary]

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

You can use "free" but it (and probably your graphics thing) can be
deceptive, see this post to my LUG's list:

http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2002/07/msg00513.html

-Mary