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what is the command for finding the higest memory occupied
file in linux?
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Answer / lokesh reddy
Top command will show the memory occupied by a file.When top
is showing the output press shift+m to show the file or
process which is using larger memory.
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Answer / vijay kumar
ls -ltr is the command
or we can use ls -ll also
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Friends, you all aware of that, Linux will be storing all tasks including drivers in file format. Here we can assume that, Mr. Rudra85 asking that, what is the command to use to know the heist memory utilizing process?
Mr. Rudra85, if my assumption is correct then the answer is below.
# ps –aux
Then press ‘Shft+m’ to sort out the memory column ascending order
NOTE: Press ‘h’ key from your keyboard to know more about the command keys
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Answer / s.subramanian@ hcl chennai
ps -auxf | sort -nr -k 4 | head -1
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Answer / rallapalli
In which directory u want to search enter into the dir and
run like below
#du -sh * | sort -nr | head -1
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 1 Yes | 9 No |
Answer / shobhit
I am bit confuse about the question, If you are asking for
the space occupied by the file?
Then two Answers we have:
1.) df - Th
2.) ls -lh
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