How to see top processes sorted by actual memory usage?
I have a server with 12G of memory. A fragment of top is shown below: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 12979 frank 20 0 206m 21m 12m S 11 0.2 26667:24 krfb 13 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 1 0.0 36:25.04 ksoftirqd/3 59 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 4:53.00 ata/2 2155 root 20 0 662m 37m 8364 S 0 0.3 338:10.25 Xorg 4560 frank 20 0 8672 1300 852 R 0 0.0 0:00.03 top 12981 frank 20 0 987m 27m 15m S 0 0.2 45:10.82 amarok 24908 frank 20 0 16648 708 548 S 0 0.0 2:08.84 wrapper 1 root 20 0 8072 608 572 S 0 0.0 0:47.36 init 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd The free -m shows the following