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Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage



On 2014-09-09 20:13 +0200, Bret Busby wrote:

> :~$ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:      16333856   16242704      91152          0      86784    1384384
> -/+ buffers/cache:   14771536    1562320
> Swap:     42860340    1764372   41095968

That's indeed rather a lot of RAM used.  You can investigate that with
the 'top' program.  After starting top, type 'M' to sort by memory
usage.

Cheers,
       Sven


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