I am working on a university computer. I am trying to run a job which is apparently slowing other users down. I ran 'top' to see what was going on. I was running near 100% of the CPU, but I think there are 24 CPUs (I pressed '1' while I was in 'top')? But the MEM% that I was using was creeping up and up as the process continues. So I believe that that was RAM that I was using up? Is that the RAM for the machine as a whole? i.e. once I get near 100%, everything is going to stop working for people who are using the came machine? Or is the RAM just for the CPU I am using. If so, why does it slow down the work of other people.
I'm trying to ask a question without understanding the situation, so please point out what more information I need to provide.
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command. You can probably even use a system call to let you r programnice
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