Dear Florian and Chuck, Thank a lot, for your comments. Now am use the htop, because I can download the sources and compiled it. http://sourceforge.net/projects/htop/ The Nice manager on real time, is a power tool, to make a fine tuning in Servers. Best Regards, -- Pablo Cavero System Engineer +569 8920 9509 2011/5/4 Chuck Munro <[log in to unmask]> > The information there looks about correct. I get different output from >> `free`, however: >> total used free shared buffers cached >> Mem: 3843684 3622932 220752 0 85184 995880 >> -/+ buffers/cache: 2541868 1301816 >> Swap: 6289412 1258920 5030492 >> >> Here, the second line without buffers and cache is interesting. >> >> When using `top`, look at the RES column and for some applications that >> make usage of shared memory, the SHR column. The link you provided >> completely ignores that but in some cases, this usage can be significant. >> >> >> Hope this helps, >> Florian Philipp >> > > One thing I'd like to add to Florian's comment ... If you have not yet > tried it, install a copy of 'htop' from Dag Wieers' SourceForge repository. > There is an el6 version of the repo configuration rpm available at: > packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/ > > 'htop' is an excellent tool for poking around processes, and allows you to > scroll vertically *and* horizontally through the process list. I much > prefer it to traditional 'top'. > > Chuck >