Monday, February 11, 2008

Commands to Monitor Memory usage in Linux























1.free

Displays total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system.

2.top

It is a command line interface which displays summary of all processes, free and used physical and swap memory in the system. It also includes c.p.u utilization.

3.gnome-system-monitor

Starart xserver and run gnome-system-monitor is a graphical user interface

4.vmstat

It Displays about virtual memory stats. Th information about process, memory,paging ,i/o and cpu utilization.




Ref:Red Hat Linux 9 Docs.

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