On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:45, James D. Parra wrote:

Hello,

How can I find out what process or application is using all of my memory?

The "ps" and "top" commands or KSysGuard or "qps" GUIs can all do this. The System Monitor KDE panel applet ("KTimeMon") is nice for giving an overview of memory allocation (in particular, it's the easiest way to see the breakdown between cache, buffers, used and free memory). But do you have an actual problem? Is your system behaving badly? Linux manages its RAM to maximize its utilization, which means often there is little or no RAM that is technically "free," since its being used for file system buffers or other caching. But such RAM is readily available to be reassigned to other purposes. This often alarms those unfamiliar with Linux, expecting that when the so-called "free" memory is low the system is in trouble and imminent failure is likely. That is rarely so. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org