Monitoring true memory utilization

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

On Tue, September 19, 2006 10:18 am, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> In Redhat how do I do this?
>
>
>
> The top command doesn't accurately show how much memory is really being
> used since redhat doesn't immediately release it after a process is done
> with it.  For example, top states I am using 9.6GB of RAM, but the
> processes that got it ramped that far up are gone have been reduced to
> three, and should be using roughly 4.5GB of RAM.

I use:

cat  /proc/meminfo

to get better, or more specific information.

To that end, I installed torsmo and use it on my desktop(s) so I can't have to
worry about it much.

HTH,

Karl

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