Memory use

[WipeOut]

thedogfarted wrote:

> does it uses swap space for accelerating everything too?? because now 
> it has "eaten" all avilable memory and starts to "eat" swap space. 
> Until this i've never seen anything in my swap partition, now there 
> are 44M.
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> just wondering if there is a way to see how much each program uses memory


How much RAM do you have? if its less than about 256MB I would expect it 
to use a fair chunk of swap space..

To see what is using the memory you can use "top" and sort it by memory 
usage or look at the output from "ps -aux"

Later..

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> WipeOut wrote:
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>> thedogfarted wrote:
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>>> After reboot system monitor shows i have more that 50% memory free, 
>>> but the amount of memory used is slowly rising and now it's 4h after 
>>> reboot and i have 100% memory used :(
>>>
>>> Probably this is caused by some apps i use (possible candidates are 
>>> xmms and xchat), is there some way to check it?
>>>
>>> I wonder if someone else have such issues.
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, everyone will have this issue.. If their system is working 
>> properly anyway.. :)
>>
>> As has been said many times before, linux makes use of all availible 
>> memory for caching which makes things run faster..
>>
>> Later..
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