Your Question: Which Process Is Consuming Ram Linux?
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Which process is consuming more memory in Linux?

6 Answers. Using top : when you open top , pressing m will sort processes based on memory usage. But this will not solve your problem, in Linux everything is either file or process. So the files you opened will eating the memory too.

How can I tell what is consuming memory in Linux?

How to Check Memory Usage in Linux, 5 Simple Commands

  1. cat Command to Show Linux Memory Information.
  2. free Command to Display the Amount of Physical and Swap Memory.
  3. vmstat Command to Report Virtual Memory Statistics.
  4. top Command to Check Memory Use.
  5. htop Command to Find Memory Load of Each Process.
Alexander Ross

Alexander Ross

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