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TOP – memory explanation

(just few notes – to avoid to forget)

  • VIRT: not really relevant nowadays. It’s the memory that the process could use. But the OS loads only what needed, so rarely really used. On 32bit OS, it could be the only time when you need to keep an eye as the OS can allocate up to 2-3GB only.
  • RES: Resident Set Size memory – this is the actual memory in RAM. On low used machines, it might still show high usage even if not utilised as the process to free-up the memory costs more than leaving it. In fact, Linux OS tends to use as much memory available (“unused memory is wasted memory“).
  • SH: this is the shared memory which generally contains libraries etc

Find files based on date/time 

# ONE LINERS


> Modified in the last 12 hours (720 min)
find . -cmin -720 

> Modified in the last day
find . -mtime -1



# => ctime - for hacked/modified files 
# look for ctime instead, hacked scripts can't set that to what they want as opposed to mtime:

find -cmin -$n_minutes_ago
find -ctime -$n_days_ago
ls -lc   ## sorted by name
ls -ltc   ## sorted by time


>> File OLDER THAN xx days:
find . -type f -ctime +$n_days_ago

>> Find files RESTORED older that xx days and MOVE them
find . -type f -mtime +$n_days_ago | xargs -I '{}' mv {} /destination/path/