topic Re: Show memory consumption in Operating System - HP-UX

Show memory consumption

Ed Hon — Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:17:28 GMT

Glance shows memory usage at 95%. How do I see what processes are using up the memory. Thanks.

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:15:37 GMT

Hi, Ed:

Several suggestions appear in this thread.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x4ed9f841489fd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

The most elegant is Bill Hassell's use of the UNIX95 option with the 'ps' command:

UNIX95= ps -e -o "user,vsz,pid,ppid,arg" | sort -rnk2 | more

...JRF...

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:07:41 GMT

Hi, Ed [...don't know if this posted...]:

Several suggestions appear in this thread.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x4ed9f841489fd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

The most elegant is Bill Hassell's use of the UNIX95 option with the 'ps' command:

UNIX95= ps -e -o "user,vsz,pid,ppid,arg" | sort -rnk2 | more

...JRF...

Mr Amir Mujtabain — Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:33:33 GMT

Hi,

You can use the following to see memory usage etc.
login as root.

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