[SOLVED] How much memory is Chromium actually using?

linustalman · 09-10-2017, 05:04 AM

Hi.

How much memory is Chromium actually using?

In MATE System Monitor - there's multiple entries (image atttached).

Compared to Firefox (image attached), there's 1 entry.

Thanks.

jlinkels · 09-10-2017, 06:59 AM

Chrome/Chromium starts a new process for each new tab. And 100 MB per tab is something which looks familiar to me. FF run as one single process. But I don't know how much it allocates at start en how much for each tab, and if it allocates such an insane amount.

jlinkels

linustalman · 09-11-2017, 12:45 PM

So the only way to figure out the total memory usage of Chromium is to manually add them up from e.g. htop, system mon, etc.?

MadeInGermany · 09-11-2017, 01:15 PM

Perhaps you can list the processes with

Code:

ps -eo pid,rss,vsz,comm | awk '$NF~/^chromium/'

If successful, you can sum up the rss (rss should be more precise than vsz):

Code:

ps -eo rss,comm | awk '$NF~/^chromium/ {sum+=$1} END {print sum}'

MadeInGermany · 09-11-2017, 01:17 PM

Perhaps you can list the processes with

Code:

ps -eo pid,rss,vsz,comm | awk '$NF~/^chromium/'

If successful, you can sum up the rss (rss should be more precise than vsz):

Code:

ps -eo rss,comm | awk '$NF~/^chromium/ {sum+=$1} END {print sum,"kbyte"}'

If there is more than one user on the system, filter for your user:

Code:

ps -u $USER -o rss,comm | awk '$NF~/^chromium/ {sum+=$1} END {print sum,"kbyte"}'

linustalman · 09-11-2017, 01:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MadeInGermany

Perhaps you can list the processes with

Code:

ps -eo pid,rss,vsz,comm | awk '$NF~/^chromium/'

If successful, you can sum up the rss (rss should be more precise than vsz):

Code:

ps -eo rss,comm | awk '$NF~/^chromium/ {sum+=$1} END {print sum,"kbyte"}'

If there is more than one user on the system, filter for your user:

Code:

ps -u $USER -o rss,comm | awk '$NF~/^chromium/ {sum+=$1} END {print sum,"kbyte"}'

Hi MIG.

Code:

ps -eo rss,comm | awk '$NF~/^chromium/ {sum+=$1} END {print sum}'

Code:

So about 2136 MB or just over 2GB?

MadeInGermany · 09-11-2017, 01:36 PM

Yes, I have edited my post to clarify it is kbyte.
Or scale to MB

Code:

ps -u $USER -o rss,comm | awk '$NF~/^chromium/ {sum+=$1} END {printf "%.1f MB\n",sum/1024}'

linustalman · 09-11-2017, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MadeInGermany

Yes, I have edited my post to clarify it is kbyte.
Or scale to MB

Code:

ps -u $USER -o rss,comm | awk '$NF~/^chromium/ {sum+=$1} END {printf "%.1f MB\n",sum/1024}'

That's perfect! Thank you sir.