Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:53:31 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: memory usage displsy Message-ID: <4A9D89CB.6060206@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <20090901162931.d85ec256.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <4A9D8057.8020307@intersonic.se> <20090901162931.d85ec256.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Bill Moran wrote: > 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. > Well, my problem is that if I add up all I *can* see in top or ps it never gets near the by now 3G plus memory shown as "Active". Maybe one gig is accounted for,
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4A9D89CB.6060206>