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Memory percentage in top (linux)

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Mar 15, 202610062 views
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Just wondering (1) is the memory percentage in top for a process is relative to memory or relative to memory+swap? (2) if it is the former, how can I get the latter? Vice versa. (3) To determine if it is proper to run another executable, should I look into memory only or memory+swap? Or in which ca…

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Looking at an example: Mem: 7928892k total, 7814100k used, 114792k free, 181504k buffers Swap: 1020088k total, 92k used, 1019996k free, 2651664k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 11933 root 18 0 11.6g 3.4g 1.0g S 1 45.2 46…

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