Hello, I would like to know how much physical memory consumned by each runing applications on Linux The ps and top are showing different outputs, I could not find it out , what ammount of actual memory consumed by each runing process on my system The scenario is : The physcial memory installed on Linux system is 1024MB Top command output : top - 02:11:57 up 18:48, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 126 total, 1 running, 125 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.2% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.8% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1026328k total, 810848k used, 215480k free, 47032k buffers Swap: 2040244k total, 0k used, 2040244k free, 316708k cached Free command output : Free -mt total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1002 791 210 0 45 309 -/+ buffers/cache: 436 565 Swap: 1992 0 1992 Total: 2994 791 2203 The free command is showing 436MB used and 565MB is free but the Top command is showing 810MB is used and 215MB is free why cached is showing 309MB is it swap memory If I calculate it comes to 436+309+45=791 how cache is distributed with each application is cache and VIRT is same could anyone tell me how do I find out exact physical memory occupied by each applications. If go with ps command, is RSS is write value or Virtual Memory + RSS ( Resident set size) value #ps -eo rss,pcpu,comm,user,pid,time |sort -rnk1|head -20 242896 0.1 java 501 5294 00:01:28 27628 0.0 spamd root 3314 00:00:01 25380 0.0 spamd root 3093 00:00:00 23624 0.0 spamd root 3315 00:00:00 22656 0.0 mysqld mysql 9573 00:00:00 22656 0.0 mysqld mysql 5415 00:00:02 22656 0.0 mysqld mysql 5340 00:00:00 22656 0.0 mysqld mysql 5336 00:00:00 22656 0.0 mysqld mysql 3322 00:00:00 22656 0.0 mysqld mysql 3321 00:00:00 22656 0.0 mysqld mysql 3320 00:00:00 22656 0.0 mysqld mysql 3319 00:00:00 22656 0.0 mysqld mysql 3311 00:00:00 22656 0.0 mysqld mysql 3310 00:00:00 22656 0.0 mysqld mysql 3309 00:00:00 22656 0.0 mysqld mysql 3308 00:00:00 22656 0.0 mysqld mysql 3307 00:00:00 22656 0.0 mysqld mysql 3233 00:00:00 22656 0.0 mysqld mysql 22854 00:00:00 22656 0.0 mysqld mysql 22853 00:00:00 Thanks Nilesh ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list