The Memory Usage window

The display

This window shows the percentage of memory used by different programs. Each section is colour-coded and labelled. The number in brackets after a program's name is the number of instances of that program running. If you have gnome-terminals or xterminals open, for example, you will see more than one instance of these and of bash, or your preferred shell, running. The default display shows the Resident Set Size (the amount of physical memory used by the program and the shared libraries that it needs, but not swapped-out data) for all processes. Other displays can be invoked from the View Menu and the Preferences box.

Menu options affecting the memory display

Several menu options can affect the display in the memory window. There is also a toolbar which is described in the Processes section of this document.