Yes you will. Hit 'M' (note that's a capital M. lowercase m turns off
memory info) to sort by memory usage. From the top manpage on the
attributes shown for each process:
SIZE The size of the task's code plus data plus stack space, in
kilobytes, is shown here.
RSS The total amount of physical memory used by the task, in
kilobytes, is shown here. For ELF processes used
library pages are counted here, for a.out processes not.
SHARE The amount of shared memory used by the task is shown
in this column.
Sorting on that info will most definitely show you a dormant process
that's sucking up all the RAM, i.e., Netscape 90% of the time on my box
:)
Victor
On 31-Jul-2001 Steve Baker wrote:
> Victor Brilon wrote:
>>
>> Check out the 'top' command and its associated man page :)
>
> Yes - but top only shows the top processes (in terms of CPU time
> consumption).
>
> If you have a near-dormant process that's hogging most of your
> memory, you
> may not see it in top.
>
> The better way may be to use good old-fashioned 'ps' with appropriate
> arguments.
>
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