[TriLUG] Memory Monitor on a Redhat system

[Michael Rothwell]

Try running this:
ps -eo pid,user,comm,pmem,rss,vsz --sort rss

The piggiest processes will be at the bottom of the output.

On Mar 29, 2007, at 12:04 PM, Tom Le wrote:

> We are having problems with memory usage on a Redhat AS 4 - on a
> 64-bit Power PC IBM pSeries. We was wondering if there is a reliable
> package to monitor memory usage on the server. Our current problem is
> that the system memory is 95% capacity and we have no idea what is
> taking up all the memory. We are certain that oracle is using 1G out
> of 16G of the box, and one instance of jboss is set to use max 1G of
> memory. We are trying to add a second instance of jboss and it won't
> start due to insufficient memory. We need a package or a way to drill
> down to what application using how much memory on the server
> Any suggestion is appreciated.
>
> Tom
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