On 10/09/2020 12:03, Keith Edmunds wrote: > What problem are you trying to solve? > > If you're just curious about memory usage, run htop, press F6 and sort by > M_RESIDENT or, if you're feeling more adventurous, run atop and press M > (not m). Either will show you how much memory each process is using, with > htop giving a less detailed but possibly easier to interpret display.
I want to know why my memory usage is this high/being reported to be this high. Using htop in that way seems to show processes that aren't currently running any more - like previous invocations of firefox, in the stats. Is that expected? Hamish
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