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Date:      Tue, 1 Sep 2009 16:29:31 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: memory usage displsy
Message-ID:  <20090901162931.d85ec256.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A9D8057.8020307@intersonic.se>
References:  <4A9D8057.8020307@intersonic.se>

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In response to Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se>:
> 
> What is a good way to find out how memory is used? Have a 6.4 box where 
> memory is used by something but I fail to see what is using it - tried 
> different switches to ps(1), tried the stat tools but a big chunk of 
> memory does not show at all.
> 
> A proper tool for analyzing memory usage "live", this is a production box?

I've always been able to get what I need from top.  You can do -o res to
sort by resident memory usage, which helps.

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Bill Moran
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