how to check memory

abhijeetdutta · 10-29-2009, 11:07 AM

hi

how can i check which particular process consumes more memory.

thanks

repo · 10-29-2009, 11:10 AM

take a look at
top

abhijeetdutta · 10-29-2009, 02:43 PM

ya i can do it from there but actually i want grep only that services whose utlisation is more...

TB0ne · 10-29-2009, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by abhijeetdutta

ya i can do it from there but actually i want grep only that services whose utlisation is more...

Is more than what???

Pipe top into awk, and print out whatever field you want. Do that in a script to tell you when it's higher than whatever you want.

orion.echo · 10-29-2009, 04:44 PM

I would just execute top and do a shift m (will toggle memory utilization)