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11 questions linked to/from Correctly determining memory usage in Linux
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Redhat find process memory usage [duplicate]
When I cat /proc/meminfo I see:
MemTotal: 1048576 kB
MemFree: 11136 kB
Buffers: 0 kB
Cached: 0 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 0 kB
Inactive: ...
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Why total RES doesn't match used memory in top command? [duplicate]
This is a 32 GB memory machine and the following top/free command says 30.5 GB memory is used, but the total RES is actually much less than 30.5 GB. Why?
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Shouldn't there be more RAM free than this? [duplicate]
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Correctly determining memory usage in Linux
I see that almost all my RAM is in use. Is this bad? Strange thing is I don't see what is actually using the RAM.
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better way to get memfree from /proc and convert to decimal [duplicate]
I'm using awesome wm with bashets to make a little text widget to display the free memory. I wanted to convert the number from total kB to gigs (i.e. 1.2).
this is what I came up with...
mem_Kb=$(...
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Memory Usage doesn't add up [duplicate]
Free Shows:
free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 32130 22377 9553 48 200 9368
Swap: 8191 ...
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Does Pulseaudio leak memory?
I invoked the top command and got this:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3433 klutt 20 0 4790760 1.0g 282208 S 8.3 4.2 1261:...
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Tracking down Linux memory usage when not showing up in cache
Before you get your pitchforks out, I am having trouble tracking down on where the memory is going into the caching system in Linux. I have seen Linux ate my RAM!, and How to see top processes by ...
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cannot find what has used all the memory
The server has about 24GB memory. By running free -g I find the memory is used up
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 23 23 0 ...
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Memory Consumption of Process
How can we know which process is using how much memory individually?
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Linux Mint RAM Memory - Showing different usage and free space
I have just installed Linux Mint about 5 days ago, and then I have upgraded my RAM memory from 8 GB to 12 GB, and I have 4 GB more on the way, so it will get to 16 GB or RAM.
The only thing is, I don'...
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Can't find out what hogs memory, how to troubleshoot? `free`, `top`, `htop`, `ps` didn't help
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When I start my linux machine it eats about 3.7 Gigs of memory.
By the end of the day, after I close everything I used for work and then close even everything else, even stuff that was ...
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