Demo: Memory Is What Runs Out

Sort the processes by resident memory.

Run

ps -e -o pid,comm,rss --sort -rss | head -10

Ask

• Which program is at the top, and how many times does it appear?
• chrome on disk is a few hundred megabytes. Where does a 1.6 GB process come from?
• What runs out first on your laptop: the CPU or the memory?