here's what I see if I run top and sort by memory:
Code:
68 processes: 67 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped[K
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle[K
total 0.0% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 99.5%[K
Mem: 512892k av, 503812k used, 9080k free, 0k shrd, 71024k buff[K
333684k active, 98680k inactive[K
Swap: 2048276k av, 8308k used, 2039968k free 126484k cached[K
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[7m PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND[K[0m
32519 root 16 0 284M 284M 62740 S 0.0 56.8 1:48 0 java[K
28603 mysql 16 0 9452 4216 1784 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 0 mysqld[K
32517 root 19 0 3288 2012 1732 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 perl[K
7267 root 16 0 1976 1968 1712 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 sshd[K
7269 root 16 0 1372 1372 1140 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 0 bash[K
7376 root 16 0 1208 1208 900 R 0.4 0.2 0:00 0 top[K
957 root 16 0 1204 1120 1084 S 0.0 0.2 2:16 0 sshd[K
1064 root 17 0 1020 904 904 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 svscanboot[K
28583 root 24 0 980 848 848 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 mysqld_safe[K
31668 root 16 0 852 700 676 S 0.0 0.1 0:02 0 vsftpd[K
944 root 16 0 624 584 440 S 0.0 0.1 0:22 0 smartd[K
971 root 18 0 688 584 584 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 xinetd[K
988 root 16 0 596 580 528 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 crond[K
843 root 16 0 576 544 500 S 0.0 0.1 0:49 0 syslogd[K
1041 daemon 16 0 560 540 540 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 atd[K
1054 root 16 0 516 476 460 S 0.0 0.0 0:27 0 popper[K
19728 qmaild 15 0 480 464 432 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 tcpserver[K
19736 qmaill 16 0 436 432 380 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 splogger[K
1 root 16 0 412 388 364 S 0.0 0.0 0:08 0 init[K
906 root 16 0 420 372 372 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 apmd[K
19729 qmails 16 0 364 356 304 S 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 qmail-send[K
847 root 16 0 372 316 316 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 klogd[K
19730 qmaill 15 0 328 316 276 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 multilog[K
19737 root 16 0 320 312 268 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 qmail-lspawn[K
1066 root 16 0 320 304 268 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 svscan[K
19738 qmailr 16 0 324 304 272 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 qmail-rspawn[K
19739 qmailq 16 0 316 300 264 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 qmail-clean[K
1058 root 18 0 336 292 292 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty[K
1059 root 17 0 340 292 292 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty[K
1060 root 17 0 336 292 292 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty[K
1061 root 17 0 340 292 292 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty[K
1062 root 18 0 336 292 292 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty[K
1063 root 18 0 340 292 292 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty[K
1068 root 16 0 284 260 244 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 supervise[K
1069 root 16 0 280 260 244 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 supervise[K[J[8;1H[44;1H
The biggest app that I have is java which I set to take up 280 mb of memory. But my computer has 512 memory total (as it's shown at the top)... but it's also shown that almost all 512 is taken:
Mem: 512892k av, 503812k used, 9080k free
... My computer seems to be working just fine, but this message doesn't make any sense.. why does it say that 500mb of memory is being used? Also, what's "av" stand for?
Thanks!
