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Total disk usage for a particular user

I would like to see the total disk usage for myself on a particular file system. I executed the command du -h ~my_user_name However, this lists every directory owned by my_user_name. I would like ...
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How can I constantly monitor my computer's RAM usage?

I have to monitor my computer physical memory (RAM) usage constantly when I'm working, because sometimes I will work with multiple applications (e.g Sublime Text, Photoshop, MS Visual Studio and ...
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How to see overall system usage stats in Qubes OS?

So I'm using this tin-foil-hat linux distro called Qubes OS. One thing that's been bothering me is how to get at overall system load stats. I can see each VM's basic CPU / Mem / Disk usage in the ...
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Why is my memory at 65% usage when I'm not running any programs?

I don't know why my memory is showing 65% usage even though I'm not running any programs. And sometimes it's stuck. My laptop specifications: Acer Aspire VX 15 OS : Windows 10 x64 lastest ...
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Is there a reason to install a 64bit OS on a computer with less than 4GB of RAM? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is there any benefit from installing Windows 7 64-bit when you have less than 4GB or RAM? Hi everyone. I have a computer with Arch Linux x64 on it and 3 GB of RAM. Recently, ...
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Do programs on Inactive Virtual Desktop still use the memory in Windows 10?

Really, I was wondering if there is a point to multiple desktops, beyond a users personal organization, Like is there some type of performance boost or something? Specifically, If I have Chrome with ...
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Where can I see the memory usage of firefox 4 plugins?

I'd like to know when and how the firefox 4 plugins eats memory.
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Is it normal for Firefox 7 to use up to 800MB of RAM?

I seem to be having a lot of problems with my Firefox install. One of these is that it uses a lot of memory, but I'm not sure if it's normal or not. After a few hours of browsing it can go up to ...
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Windows 8.1 64-bit: High memory usage

I have 8GB of memory on a 64 bit windows 8.1 machine, and windows is telling me I'm using 91% of my memory, yet its simultaneously telling me I'm only using 3GB. I literally just restarted my machine ...
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Unit of maximum resident set size in the output of time

Can someone let me know what is the unit of maximum resident size in the output below?- /usr/bin/time -l mvn clean package -T 7 -DskipTests ... real 530.51 user 837.49 sys 64.28 ...
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rtvscan.exe uses too much memory about 250,416k

Symantec rtvscan.exe uses too much memory about 250,416k. Is there a way to reduce it?
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Why do RAMMAP's total RAM usage of processes/mapped-file not even remotely add up to the total Memory usage in User Counts?

RamMap: User Counts Processes File summary In RamMap, the memory usage in first image is right. However, when I tried to add up all the Active memory, and the 2nd image and 3rd image doesn't match ...
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Mountain Lion Finder Memory Issues [closed]

Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, I've been noticing that the Finder has a fondness of gobbling up multiple gigabytes of real memory. Although a quick relaunch gets it back down to <100 MB, this ...
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How to solve lsass.exe very high ram usage?

My machine has been feeling sluggish and I'm noticing that the lsass.exe process is allocating nearly 2GB, which seems unusually high. here: (Win7x64,Vertex2,Gtx460,i7-2600,8gb ram) Any ideas?
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svchost.exe memory usage up to 4Gb every hour, how to fix?

For some unknown reason, more or less every hour, one of the svchost.exe process (LocalServiceNoNetwork) of my Win 7 takes up to 4Gb of memory ! If I don't manually kill the process it makes the PC ...
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summarize memory use task manager

There are multiple processes (several dozens) running on a Windows 7 Pro machine. They have the same Image Name (column Image Name in Windows Task Manager), but can take various amount of memory (...
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Why is my RAM usage so high with nothing running?

Is it normal for a computer with nothing running to have an 19% memory usage? I know it may not be a huge problem but I'm concern because with a game like Modern Warfare I have 80%+ usage and I ...
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Windows overusing RAM and task manager percentage does not match the values

I've been trying to fix my RAM overusage by the system, because it has about 80 to 90 percent at idle and starts crashing after an hour of using just Skype and three Chrome tabs simultaneously while ...
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Why isn't memory usage of a virtual machine monitor-able?

While checking my AWS instance (CloudWatch), I noticed that there's no monitor data for memory usage. There are I/O usage like disk and network, as well as CPU usage. From my own experiences in using ...
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How can I see the amount of memory a process is using and not just has allocated?

I am looking for a way to determine the memory a process is really using (not just having allocated). Looking at procmon.exe or vmmap.exe the relevant values are: Private bytes All memory allocated. ...
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How can I use sar to track processor and memory usage?

I'm running some load tests on a application hosted on one of my server and I wanted to track the processor and memory usage over a period of time e.g. 30 minutes. I've read that I can do this with ...
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Windows 7 high memory usage

I am completely confused on seeing the free memory available in Task Manager as 15MB. My system configuration is Core2Duo with 6GB RAM running Windows7 64-bit professional edition. At the time of ...
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How to only show specific information from `free`?

I am using this command free --mega to show free memory and free swap. It shows total, used, free, shared, buff/cache and available. How do I get it to just show free memory for both only?
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Does increasing ram reduce memory usage percentage in windows 10?

I have i5-9300h processor and 8bg of ram on my laptop and recently have noticed that Chrome and apparently Desktop Windows Manager accounts for maximum memory usage in my task manager. So upgrading my ...
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Memory use increasing without any process

I am having some issues with my memory usage since a few days (maybe since the last Windows update I did if I remember correctly) where my memory slowly fill up to the 16 GB capacity over the course ...
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Windows 7 hangs when one process start consuming too much memory

My problem is following: I am working on a data science project and have some code performing data analysis and processing. If I take too big chunk of data to process at once the process starts ...
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Can I reuse this RAM in my other laptop?

I just upgraded my laptop to 2 @8gb. I removed from it 2 @4gB which the RamExpert program said were DDR3 / PC3-12800. I have an old laptop with 2 @ 2gB which RamExpert says are DDR3 / PC3-6400. Can ...
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Memory optimization of redis-server in an embedded Linux distribution

I'm trying to optimize a redis-server version 6.0.5 installed in an embedded Linux distribution with 2 GByte of RAM. At the moment there aren't particular failure of the redis-server. The output of ...
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How to automatically enforce RAM limits for individual application?

RAM usage of both Firefox and TOR browser (based on Firefox) is really getting out of hand, I therefore need to set a permanent limit on both applications. For every new instance of either browser ...
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Computer resources used in the morning

I have a Dell Optiplex Windows 10 computer with 4GB of ram. running a private ssh server (latest SSH server built in to windows). It runs really well and quick for the most part, until the next ...
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Excessive use of RAM by Oracle HTTP Server

I have a problem related to an Oracle HTTP Server (based on Apache) that continues to consume memory up to using all the available RAM. Do you have any advice on how to identify the problem? I'm in ...
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Something uses 1GB RAM - cant tell what it is

I have a computer with 8GB of RAM installed and it is running Windows 7 Professional. I was curious why my memory usage is so high, so I quickly build summary using Powershell: $(Get-Process | ...
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Moving things to ram [closed]

My laptop has not been feeling well recently. When I checked​ the reasons, I found out Firefox had been performing read and write operations on the HDD at the limit of it's capabilities. After some ...
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Why installed memory not the same as "total memory"

I am running linux (Mint 17) on new laptop (Asus X550ZA) that has 8gb of RAM. The bios shows 8gb, but when I show /proc/meminfo, it only shows 3.4 gb: $ sudo cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: ...
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Is there anyway to produce realistic load(cpu,memory and disk all together) on a linux system?

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and I want to stress test my system but most of benchmarks are specific in nature. Either they are benchmarking Disk or CPU or Memory usage etc. But is there anything which can ...
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Google Chrome Helper processes using a lot of memory on my Mac OS X machine

I find in my activity monitor that I have around 10 Google Chrome helper processes and most of them use 300-400MB. On some questions I read, they say to change the plugins from run automatically to ...
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Windows server 2008 only uses half my RAM

I have just bought the HP ProLiant G7 N54L 2.2GHz MicroServer, I have upgraded the RAM to 8gb (2x4GB), (http://www.ebuyer.com/430446-proliant-microserver-turion-2-2-2gb-250gb-nhpl-sata-lff-in-704941-...
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Bitcoin daemon consuming over 581Mb of memory with 35 connections

With 35 connections, my bitcoind consumes 581Mb of memory which is over half of my total memory in VPS (1024 total) and I need memory also for other services such as apache2 and mysql on my server. ...
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linux memory usage check in details

I"m unable to find the memory usage however top shows me the following results. Tasks: 90 total, 2 running, 88 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 21.1%us, 1.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 74.0%id, 2.4%...
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Why is image size and the memory required to display it different?

I learned from a stack overflow post that the memory required to display an image and the image size is equal to 4 * image dimensions I have some 800x800 images and I see that its size is about a ...
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HP Pavilion Slimline 400-214 Windows 10 has 12 GB RAM but is using less than 4 GB

My HP Pavilion Slimline 400-214 Windows 10 has 12 GB RAM but is using less than 4 GB. I have double checked the Boot advanced options. The max memory box is unchecked. Here's what I'm seeing. My ...
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8gb RAM usage almost 100% with nothing running [duplicate]

I've a problem recently with my PC. The RAM usage is always almost 100% no matter how many apps it's running. The problem appears these days and before nothing was wrong. I'm using windows 10, my ram ...
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Upgrade RAM Memory

I have a Lenovo G510 laptop. I'm an android developer, and most of the time I'm working with the Android Studio program. As some of you know, android studio takes about 1 GB from my RAM and the Java ...
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