Unfortunately the "Memory" column in System Monitor is pretty much useless for actually visualizing what memory a process is or isn't using. There are a lot of

Unfortunately the "Memory" column in System Monitor is pretty much useless for actually visualizing what memory a process is or isn't using. There are a lot of different ways to measure memory for different situations. That column doesn't actually give any concrete data on what's going on in the system. http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/understanding-memory-usage-on-linux.html http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/understanding-mem... Gives the 10,000 foot overview of measuring memory usage on a Linux system.