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>
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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,home | help
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