Finding what programs are using ram

timothyb89 · 01-22-2007, 10:33 PM

Searching got me nowhere, so:
I'm wondering if it's possible to find out which programs are using my RAM. I know that there probably is one, and I should know what it is, but I don't.
I have 1 GB of RAM but I usually only have around 14 MBs free and the VM size info in ksysgaurd doesn't seem to add up.
Anyone know of anything like this?

nilleso · 01-22-2007, 10:42 PM

try `top` or `ps -aux` or ... well start there.

cheers

matthewg42 · 01-22-2007, 11:12 PM

gmemusage provides a nice graphical view

timothyb89 · 01-22-2007, 11:40 PM

hm... gmemusage reports that a program called 'linux' is using 896 MBs of RAM. Something tells me that isn't normal... Would it have something to do with the 700+ MBs used by VMware? (it's the RAM that is reserved- permenently).

matthewg42 · 01-22-2007, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by timothyb89

hm... gmemusage reports that a program called 'linux' is using 896 MBs of RAM. Something tells me that isn't normal... Would it have something to do with the 700+ MBs used by VMware? (it's the RAM that is reserved- permenently).

That's weird. When I run vmplayer I get a process by that name eating a fair chunk of memory, and one called vmware-vmx. Are you using vmplayer, or another vmware variant?

Are you running gmemusage on the host of the vmware session, or "inside" the vmware session?