how to find max memory usage for process in Linux by command line

kashameni · 05-31-2007, 06:00 AM

Not with TOP command .
Any other way to find the which process is using maximum memory.
It will list that process only

Thanks in advance

acid_kewpie · 05-31-2007, 06:55 AM

clearly not a members intro. moved to Linux - Newbie.

ghostdog74 · 05-31-2007, 07:35 AM

you can try ps -aux. there's a column on memory percentage.

syg00 · 05-31-2007, 07:43 AM

Sounds like homework.
Start in /proc and see what you find.

chrism01 · 05-31-2007, 07:54 PM

You might find 'man vmstat' interesting ....

Quakeboy02 · 05-31-2007, 08:02 PM

Quote:

Not with TOP command .
Any other way to find the which process is using maximum memory.
It will list that process only

Reminder to LQers, we don't answer homework questions.

Comment to kashameni, if you're going to post homework questions, at least be courteous enough to reword them to sound like you're actually interested in knowing the answer.

Tinkster · 05-31-2007, 08:04 PM

I'd go with ghostdog ... ps -aux ... and throw sort and tail into the mix :}

And, as always: man is your friend!

Cheers,
Tink

kashameni · 05-31-2007, 11:49 PM

With ps -aux It will display all processess with cpu memory etc
I heard one command is there to find maximum memory used by process. It will list only that process.

kashameni · 05-31-2007, 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quakeboy02

Reminder to LQers, we don't answer homework questions.

Comment to kashameni, if you're going to post homework questions, at least be courteous enough to reword them to sound like you're actually interested in knowing the answer.

Please don't think like that.Even i tried on google.

acid_kewpie · 06-01-2007, 01:39 AM

even? you even tried the worlds most popular search engine once? impressive...