"top" command decypher
Hi, could anyone tell me what the process "named" stands for, as it uses an awfull lot of memory (110MB)Thanks guys...
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02:07:51 up 6 days, 21:32, 1 user, load average: 0.35, 0.31, 0.24
72 processes: 71 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 4.3% 0.5% 3.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 91.4%
Mem: 1548980k av, 1537132k used, 11848k free, 0k shrd, 34480k buff
916700k active, 538260k inactive
Swap: 2096472k av, 134244k used, 1962228k free 848036k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
1 root 16 0 1412 464 1260 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 init
1939 root 15 0 1468 540 1304 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 syslogd
1950 named 21 0 119M 110M 3996 S 0.0 7.2 0:00 0 named
1968 root 16 0 2008 804 1672 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 xinetd
1988 root 15 0 10916 9364 3128 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 0 chkservd
2043 mailnull 15 0 6952 1872 6248 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 exim
2047 mailnull 16 0 6920 1844 6248 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 exim
3077 root 16 0 3516 1796 2780 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 antirelayd
3113 root 16 0 27936 25M 4040 S 0.0 1.6 0:00 0 spamd
3174 root 16 0 10600 5964 9120 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 httpd
3182 root 16 0 1456 580 1296 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 crond
3183 root 16 0 3828 1740 3396 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 pure-ftpd
3186 root 15 0 3568 880 3228 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 pure-authd
3378 root 19 0 2068 1004 1888 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mysqld_safe
3416 mysql 16 0 33520 20M 3760 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 0 mysqld
3434 mailnull 16 0 6684 4768 3564 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 eximstats
3465 root 34 19 20216 17M 3896 S N 0.0 1.1 0:00 0 cpanellogd
3477 root 15 0 9972 8512 7608 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 0 cppop
3481 nobody 19 0 4540 2852 2884 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 0 entropychat
3485 nobody 20 0 1632 600 1292 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 melange
3540 mailman 17 0 7500 4712 4544 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 mailmanctl
3550 mailman 16 0 7476 4668 4496 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 python
3551 mailman 16 0 7436 4680 4496 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 python
3552 mailman 16 0 7424 4672 4496 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 python
3553 mailman 16 0 7424 4672 4496 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 python
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