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thijsontoday at 2:23 PM1 replyview on HN

For top if you use the > character it will sort by memory usage. I use that sometimes to figure out why my host is becoming laggy. Also you'll see swapd is taking up CPU.


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yomismoaquitoday at 4:46 PM

I prefer using the more memory friendly M (uppercase) for memory and P (uppercase) for CPU