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Old 06-17-2004, 08:46 AM   #1
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Listing processes by memory usage?


I always do a ps -ax to list my running processes.

What's the switch to show the actual memory usage? I have a memory leak on my server (suspecting it's PHP) and I'd like to list 'em and see what's sucking up all my resources.

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Old 06-17-2004, 08:49 AM   #2
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Did you try "top"?
 
Old 06-17-2004, 09:06 AM   #3
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with top it's capital M
 
Old 06-17-2004, 10:05 AM   #4
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