UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello all

'top' command shows the top 15 processes in terms of CPU usage. Is there any other command in UNIX ,that will show the top processes in terms of memory usage ? or is there a command, that will give me the memory usage of a particular process ,if I pass the process id as a parameter ...

Thanks...

top allows sorting my memory usage. hit 'h' when in top for more info. KDE has a nice GUI 'task manager' for such things, and I'm sure gnome and a few others do too; check your documentation.

Thanks ...This is what I saw when I pressed help from top

^L - redraw screen
q - quit
h or ? - help; show this text
d - change number of displays to show
e - list errors generated by last "kill" or "renice" command
i - toggle the displaying of idle processes
I - same as 'i'
k - kill processes; send a signal to a list of processes
n or # - change number of processes to display
o - specify sort order (size, res, cpu, time)
r - renice a process
s - change number of seconds to delay between updates
u - display processes for only one user (+ selects all users)


so now I quit from top and entered the following command

top o size ...and this is what I got

load averages: 0.04, 0.07, 0.09 18:20:21
79 processes: 78 sleeping, 1 on cpu
CPU states: % idle, % user, % kernel, % iowait, % swap
Memory: 16G real, 9560M free, 5255M swap in use, 23G swap free

then I tried

top o res .. and I got

load averages: 0.03, 0.05, 0.08 18:21:59
79 processes: 78 sleeping, 1 on cpu
CPU states: % idle, % user, % kernel, % iowait, % swap
Memory: 16G real, 9560M free, 5255M swap in use, 23G swap free

This output does not help ...Am I missing anything here ..

I'm on SunOS5.9 ...Is there any third party tool , I can get ...

Thanks for your time ...

Sorry ... I figured it out ...

top --> o--->res gives me what I was looking for ...

Thanks