top processes and memory usage
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Date: 11/26/03
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:32:07 -0500
In top, what is the difference between "used" and "actv"? Also, can
anyone tell me which of these top process sorted by memory usage can be
removed safely to conserve RAM? How about gdmgreeter?
Thanks
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19:10:43 up 16:16, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
53 processes: 52 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 0.0% user 0.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 100.0%
idle
CPU1 states: 0.3% user 0.1% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 99.1%
idle
Mem: 513264k av, 405984k used, 107280k free, 0k shrd, 73468k
buff
265472k actv, 28096k in_d, 3744k in_c
Swap: 1044216k av, 0k used, 1044216k free 174520k
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
2033 gdm 15 0 18796 18M 6888 S 0.0 3.6 1:11 0
gdmgreeter
1654 root 25 0 15488 15M 2064 S 0.0 3.0 0:00 1 spamd
2022 root 15 0 12676 8320 1924 S 0.0 1.6 1:01 1 X
1673 root 22 0 7296 7296 5676 S 0.0 1.4 0:00 0 eventserv
1680 root 22 0 7288 7288 5668 S 0.0 1.4 0:00 1 nameserv
1756 root 25 0 6920 6920 5508 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 1
dlgsysloggerser
1761 root 15 0 6748 6748 5364 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 1
devmapserver
2021 root 18 0 3520 3520 2820 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 0
gdm-binary
1941 xfs 15 0 3352 3352 884 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 0 xfs
1973 root 19 0 3216 3216 2580 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 0
gdm-binary
1635 root 15 0 2540 2540 1880 S 0.0 0.4 0:01 0 sendmail
1644 smmsp 15 0 2268 2260 1736 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 1 sendmail
1720 root 15 0 1948 1948 1436 S 0.0 0.3 0:15 0 cupsd
1601 root 15 0 1504 1504 1260 S 0.0 0.2 0:54 0 sshd
1777 root 15 0 1428 1428 1144 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 1 bash
2220 root 15 0 1392 1392 1116 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 1 bash
2366 root 15 0 1172 1172 856 S 0.3 0.2 3:10 1 top
22284 root 15 0 1124 1124 860 R 0.3 0.2 0:46 1 top
1615 root 15 0 864 864 744 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 1 xinetd
1505 rpcuser 25 0 684 684 608 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 rpc.statd
1464 root 15 0 580 580 504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 1 syslogd
1693 root 15 0 576 576 508 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 crond
1486 rpc 15 0 552 552 476 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 1 portmap
1959 daemon 15 0 528 528 472 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 1 atd
1 root 15 0 476 476 424 S 0.0 0.0 0:35 1 init
1663 root 15 0 444 444 392 S 0.0 0.0 0:02 0 gpm
1468 root 15 0 424 424 376 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 klogd
1967 root 22 0 396 396 348 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty
1968 root 22 0 396 396 348 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty
1969 root 22 0 396 396 348 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty
1970 root 22 0 396 396 348 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty
1971 root 22 0 396 396 348 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty
1972 root 19 0 396 396 348 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mingetty
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
migration/0
3 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 1
migration/1
4 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 keventd
5 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
ksoftirqd_CPU0
6 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 1
ksoftirqd_CPU1
11 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 bdflush
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kswapd
8 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kscand/DMA
9 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 1:09 0
kscand/Normal
10 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
kscand/HighMem
12 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:30 1 kupdated
13 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
mdrecoveryd
21 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:02 1 kjournald
79 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 khubd
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