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veetee 03-23-2012 07:38 AM
memory used by process
 
Hi,
I want to know the memory used by a process (in Kb or multiples of 4kb).

I tried top but it gives it %MEM and that too in a single digit precision e.g. 0.2% I need more accuracy.

johnsfine 03-23-2012 07:46 AM
The RES column in top should be more useful than the %MEM column. It is scaled, so you get meaningful values in the low range where %MEM has 0.0.

If you want detail for a single pid, use
cat /proc/pid/status
and look at the VmRSS field.

syg00 03-23-2012 08:27 AM
Define "memory".
Define "used".

It's all downhill from here ... :p

Satyaveer Arya 03-23-2012 04:07 PM
You can check using this command:

Code:
# pmap -x <pid>


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