Where all my memory went on my Linux box ?
1. Check the Used memory with free command: [admin@BIZ-UPGRADE-NN1 ~]# free -g total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 44 17 26 0 0 8 -/+ buffers/cache: 8 35 Swap: 20 0 19 2. Check the Top 20 Processes consuming memory: ps -eo pmem,pcpu,vsize,pid,cmd | sort -k 1 -nr | head -20 => Sort by Resident memory & ps -eo pmem,pcpu,vsize,pid,cmd | sort -k 3 -nr | head -20 => Sort by Virtual memory