To get information about a Linux process, use this simple trick, this is to get the processes associated with the current standard input. I.e a terminal.
jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Documents$ ps -T PID SPID TTY TIME CMD 7467 7467 pts/0 00:00:00 bash 7715 7715 pts/0 00:00:00 top 7826 7826 pts/0 00:00:00 ps |
See which process is using the most memory.
jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Documents$ ps aux --sort=-%mem | head -n 5 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND jason 6387 9.6 4.5 2689076 555316 ? Sl 08:26 4:43 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox jason 7348 14.4 4.2 2541344 517420 ? Sl 08:54 3:03 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 8 -isForBrowser -intPrefs 5:50|6:-1|18:0|28:1000|34:20|35:5|36:10|45:128|46:10000|51:0|53:400|54:1|55:0|56:0|61:0|62:120|63:120|99:2|100:1|115:5000|125:0|127:0|138:10000|158:24|159:32768|161:0|162:0|170:5|174:1048576|175:100|176:5000|178:600|179:4|180:1|188:20|191:3|204:60000| -boolPrefs 1:0|2:0|4:0|26:1|27:1|30:0|33:1|37:1|38:0|39:0|40:0|43:1|44:1|47:0|48:0|49:0|50:0|52:0|57:1|58:1|59:0|60:1|64:1|65:1|66:0|67:1|68:1|69:0|70:1|73:0|74:0|77:1|78:1|82:1|83:1|84:0|85:0|86:0|88:0|89:0|90:1|91:1|92:1|95:1|96:0|98:0|101:1|102:0|109:0|114:0|117:1|119:1|120:1|122:1|126:0|128:0|130:0|132:1|133:1|139:1|140:0|141:1|143:0|156:0|157:0|160:1|163:1|165:1|167:1|168:0|177:1|182:0|183:1|184:0|185:1|186:0|187:0|189:1|190:1|193:1|196:0|197:0|198:1|199:1|200:0|201:1|202:1|203:1|205:0|206:0|208:0|217:1|218:0|219:0|220:0|221:0| -stringPrefs 3:7;release|97:0;|142:3;1.0|154:332; ¼½¾ǃː??։֊׃״؉؊٪۔܁܂܃܄ᅟᅠ᜵ ???‐’․‧??????? ‹›⁁⁄⁒ ⅓⅔⅕⅖⅗⅘⅙⅚?⅜⅝⅞⅟∕∶⎮╱⧶⧸⫻⫽⿰⿱⿲⿳⿴⿵⿶⿷⿸⿹⿺⿻ 。〔〕〳゠ㅤ㈝㈞㎮㎯㏆㏟꞉︔︕︿﹝﹞?．／｡ﾠ???�|155:4;high| -schedulerPrefs 0001,2 -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 6387 true tab jason 7295 9.4 3.3 2498236 411372 ? Sl 08:52 2:13 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 7 -isForBrowser -intPrefs 5:50|6:-1|18:0|28:1000|34:20|35:5|36:10|45:128|46:10000|51:0|53:400|54:1|55:0|56:0|61:0|62:120|63:120|99:2|100:1|115:5000|125:0|127:0|138:10000|158:24|159:32768|161:0|162:0|170:5|174:1048576|175:100|176:5000|178:600|179:4|180:1|188:20|191:3|204:60000| -boolPrefs 1:0|2:0|4:0|26:1|27:1|30:0|33:1|37:1|38:0|39:0|40:0|43:1|44:1|47:0|48:0|49:0|50:0|52:0|57:1|58:1|59:0|60:1|64:1|65:1|66:0|67:1|68:1|69:0|70:1|73:0|74:0|77:1|78:1|82:1|83:1|84:0|85:0|86:0|88:0|89:0|90:1|91:1|92:1|95:1|96:0|98:0|101:1|102:0|109:0|114:0|117:1|119:1|120:1|122:1|126:0|128:0|130:0|132:1|133:1|139:1|140:0|141:1|143:0|156:0|157:0|160:1|163:1|165:1|167:1|168:0|177:1|182:0|183:1|184:0|185:1|186:0|187:0|189:1|190:1|193:1|196:0|197:0|198:1|199:1|200:0|201:1|202:1|203:1|205:0|206:0|208:0|217:1|218:0|219:0|220:0|221:0| -stringPrefs 3:7;release|97:0;|142:3;1.0|154:332; ¼½¾ǃː??։֊׃״؉؊٪۔܁܂܃܄ᅟᅠ᜵ ???‐’․‧??????? ‹›⁁⁄⁒ ⅓⅔⅕⅖⅗⅘⅙⅚?⅜⅝⅞⅟∕∶⎮╱⧶⧸⫻⫽⿰⿱⿲⿳⿴⿵⿶⿷⿸⿹⿺⿻ 。〔〕〳゠ㅤ㈝㈞㎮㎯㏆㏟꞉︔︕︿﹝﹞?．／｡ﾠ???�|155:4;high| -schedulerPrefs 0001,2 -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 6387 true tab jason 7173 2.6 2.3 2218576 282980 ? Sl 08:47 0:44 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 5 -isForBrowser -intPrefs 5:50|6:-1|18:0|28:1000|34:20|35:5|36:10|45:128|46:10000|51:0|53:400|54:1|55:0|56:0|61:0|62:120|63:120|99:2|100:1|115:5000|125:0|127:0|138:10000|158:24|159:32768|161:0|162:0|170:5|174:1048576|175:100|176:5000|178:600|179:4|180:1|188:20|191:3|204:60000| -boolPrefs 1:0|2:0|4:0|26:1|27:1|30:0|33:1|37:1|38:0|39:0|40:0|43:1|44:1|47:0|48:0|49:0|50:0|52:0|57:1|58:1|59:0|60:1|64:1|65:1|66:0|67:1|68:1|69:0|70:1|73:0|74:0|77:1|78:1|82:1|83:1|84:0|85:0|86:0|88:0|89:0|90:1|91:1|92:1|95:1|96:0|98:0|101:1|102:0|109:0|114:0|117:1|119:1|120:1|122:1|126:0|128:0|130:0|132:1|133:1|139:1|140:0|141:1|143:0|156:0|157:0|160:1|163:1|165:1|167:1|168:0|177:1|182:0|183:1|184:0|185:1|186:0|187:0|189:1|190:1|193:1|196:0|197:0|198:1|199:1|200:0|201:1|202:1|203:1|205:0|206:0|208:0|217:1|218:0|219:0|220:0|221:0| -stringPrefs 3:7;release|97:0;|142:3;1.0|154:332; ¼½¾ǃː??։֊׃״؉؊٪۔܁܂܃܄ᅟᅠ᜵ ???‐’․‧??????? ‹›⁁⁄⁒ ⅓⅔⅕⅖⅗⅘⅙⅚?⅜⅝⅞⅟∕∶⎮╱⧶⧸⫻⫽⿰⿱⿲⿳⿴⿵⿶⿷⿸⿹⿺⿻ 。〔〕〳゠ㅤ㈝㈞㎮㎯㏆㏟꞉︔︕︿﹝﹞?．／｡ﾠ???�|155:4;high| -schedulerPrefs 0001,2 -greomni /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appdir /usr/lib/firefox/browser 6387 true tab |
Another way to see which processes are using the most memory.
jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Documents$ ps auxc --sort=-%mem | head -n 20 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND jason 6387 9.9 4.5 2685568 557632 ? Rl 08:26 4:39 firefox jason 7348 13.7 4.0 2527592 492176 ? Sl 08:54 2:36 Web Content jason 7295 10.2 3.3 2498236 413380 ? Sl 08:52 2:12 Web Content jason 7173 2.7 2.3 2218576 284048 ? Sl 08:47 0:43 Web Content jason 6918 0.2 1.5 2074560 191488 ? Sl 08:29 0:07 Web Content mysql 1214 0.0 1.0 1435588 133436 ? Ssl 08:22 0:01 mysqld root 1225 4.3 0.7 360680 88060 tty7 Ssl+ 08:22 2:10 Xorg jason 3738 0.0 0.6 957640 80136 ? Sl 08:23 0:01 caja jason 3781 0.0 0.3 902564 47488 ? Sl 08:23 0:00 deja-dup-monito jason 7460 0.3 0.3 634368 45328 ? Sl 08:56 0:03 mate-terminal jason 3771 0.0 0.3 885836 44936 ? Sl 08:23 0:00 goa-daemon jason 3859 0.0 0.3 1396892 40208 ? Sl 08:23 0:00 synapse jason 3726 0.0 0.3 674232 38428 ? Sl 08:23 0:01 mate-panel jason 3782 0.0 0.3 688576 37864 ? Sl 08:23 0:00 nm-applet jason 3718 0.0 0.3 1616084 36840 ? Sl 08:23 0:01 mate-settings-d jason 3742 0.0 0.2 585300 34632 ? Sl 08:23 0:01 wnck-applet jason 4033 0.0 0.2 592436 34292 ? Sl 08:23 0:00 clock-applet jason 4031 0.0 0.2 578092 33840 ? Sl 08:23 0:00 mate-indicator- jason 7248 0.7 0.2 553100 33744 ? Sl 08:47 0:11 audacious |
This is a good way to see what is grabbing all of your ram. The -c parameter to ps, shows only the executable and not the whole command line.