"top" to find out which process chews most memory (memory leakage?)

sunhux G sunhux at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 10:16:03 UTC 2008


Since I suspect oracle sso processes (owned by oracle) is
the culprit of chewing up memory, I issued "top -u oracle"
but under % mem  column, none of them chewed a lot :


Mem:   8308576k total,  8232456k used,    76120k free,    28244k buffers
Swap:  8385888k total,   294712k used,  8091176k free,  6820996k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI %CPU    TIME+  %MEM  VIRT  RES  SHR S COMMAND
12570 oracle    16   0   15 772:44.56  0.1  199m 6900 4180 S opmn
 8775 oracle    16   0   13  32:12.00  0.1 43472 6140 4328 S tnslsnr
18510 oracle    19   0    1   0:00.02  0.3  348m  21m  20m S oracle
16500 oracle    16   0    0   0:10.90  0.2  606m  17m  15m S oracle
22836 oracle    16   0    0   0:10.85  0.2  608m  17m  15m S oracle
  427 oracle    16   0    0   0:00.42  0.3  607m  26m  24m S oracle
 2472 oracle    16   0    0   0:00.01  0.2  606m  13m  11m S oracle
 2602 oracle    15   0    0   5:19.40  0.7  348m  60m  58m S oracle
 3109 oracle    16   0    0   0:00.02  0.2  606m  18m  16m S oracle
 4248 oracle    16   0    0   0:00.01  0.2  606m  13m  11m S oracle
 5106 oracle    17   0    0   0:02.76  0.5  357m  37m  14m S emagent
 6096 oracle    16   0    0   0:00.20  0.1 20960 9728 6780 S gnome-session
 6124 oracle    16   0    0   0:00.01  0.0  4884  644  404 S ssh-agent
 6151 oracle    16   0    0   0:00.00  0.0  4328  516  404 S dbus-launch
 6152 oracle    15   0    0   0:00.00  0.0 14392 1108  944 S dbus-daemon-1
 6157 oracle    16   0    0   0:00.75  0.1 11576 7548 1660 S gconfd-2
 6162 oracle    18   0    0   0:00.00  0.0  3156  552  460 S gnome-keyring-d
 6164 oracle    16   0    0   0:00.07  0.0  7732 2556 1976 S bonobo-activati
 6166 oracle    15   0    0   0:00.07  0.1 18704 6764 5696 S gnome-settings-
 6172 oracle    15   0    0  42:14.20  0.7 57696  54m  856 S gam_server
 6181 oracle    15   0    0   0:00.49  0.0  4592 2136 1608 S xscreensaver
 6193 oracle    17   0    0   0:00.03  0.3  349m  22m  19m S oracle
 6207 oracle    16   0    0   0:01.51  0.1 14008 7368 6132 S metacity
 6209 oracle    16   0    0  23:36.86  4.4  396m 357m 8160 S gnome-panel
 6211 oracle    16   0    0   0:00.05  0.1 19976 6164 5340 S gnome-volume-ma
 6213 oracle    16   0    0   0:01.19  0.2 40744  15m 9876 S nautilus
 6215 oracle    16   0    0   0:00.13  0.1 40352 7252 6232 S eggcups
 6217 oracle    16   0    0   0:00.20  0.1 12324 4196 3592 S pam-panel-icon
 6219 oracle    25  10    0  13:46.11  0.2 30036  16m 9864 S rhn-applet-gui
 6225 oracle    16   0    0   0:00.01  0.0 21372 3520 2960 S gnome-vfs-daemo
 6236 oracle    16   0    0   0:00.05  0.0  2212  692  620 S mapping-daemon
 6238 oracle    16   0    0   0:01.67  0.1 22064 9.8m 7552 S wnck-applet
 6240 oracle    15   0    0   0:01.01  0.1 21816 9428 7128 S mixer_applet2
 6242 oracle    16   0    0   0:00.29  0.1 20852 7904 6648 S clock-applet
 6244 oracle    15   0    0   0:00.03  0.1 18888 6644 5680 S notification-ar
 6246 oracle    15   0    0   0:04.67  0.2 41480  16m 8424 S gnome-terminal



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