How much memory is application XYZ using?
 

I want to track how much memory a certain app is using & log it along with some other things I log every minute as a cron job. Is there some command that will spit back some info on memory usage of an application by name or PID? It has to be non-interactive because I'm going to do it with a script - so top won't work (at least as far as I know).

Depending on how accurate of usage you need, ps and awk might be enough.

http://wiki.marandcustomsolutions.co...g+memory+usage

That looks like it'll do. Thanks!

For others that come across this thread, I'm using:

ps -eo rss,args | grep "XYZ" | grep -v "grep"

Thanks!

On my box, "top -n1" doesn't refresh it's output, so it's suitable for scripting.

The ps solution posted above is probably easier, though.