Monitoring true memory utilization

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 09:18 -0700, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> In Redhat how do I do this?
> 
>  
> 
> The top command doesn’t accurately show how much memory is really
> being used since redhat doesn’t immediately release it after a process
> is done with it.  For example, top states I am using 9.6GB of RAM, but
> the processes that got it ramped that far up are gone have been
> reduced to three, and should be using roughly 4.5GB of RAM.

Try "vmstat", "sar -r" or "sar -R"

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