Know which apps are using a lot of memory

Linux comes with many built-in tools to manage and optimize your system. If you are new to Linux or have recently switched from Windows, you will need to learn a few commands to get the most out of it. Linux is best known as an operating system that gives the user or administrator complete control. Whether you are using Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, or another Linux distribution, you can do anything with the right commands and tools.

In this article, we’re going to focus on how to check memory usage on Linux, as this is an important skill to have. Sometimes, apps start hogging all of your system memory, and you need to know what steps to take to find the problem. Here are the best command line tools to check memory usage on your Linux system.

The top command line tool gives you a summary of all running processes. This summary includes real-time information about memory usage, so you can also use it as a monitoring app. You can see how much of your system memory is being used in total, and then you can go through the list of processes to check how much of that memory is being used by each process.