Show memory consumption

[Ed Hon]

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

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

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]

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]

Hi,

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

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