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Old 05-31-2006   #1 (permalink)
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Monitor process memory usage
I'm looking for a way to monitor memory usage based on procid ... both res and shared mem. Where can I find this information? I was thinking about /proc/PID/status.
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Sorry, I'm not entirely sure what you're looking for but have you tried looking at the /proc/meminfo file and using top to monitor memory usage?

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Thanks .. but /proc/meminfo gives the sytem information. I am interested in process information.

Basically for each process I want to look at Total, Res and Shared memory. I am running Linux version 2.6.10. I believe /proc/pid/statm provides this information but it is broken in this version.
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You needed it in a form other than "top" gives you? It has quite a few options for batch processing.

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Thumbs up This is what you are exactly looking for.
See these links and follow the guide, I am using this and one more script provided by him, ( not available on the channel ) For my application monitoring and also paging etc in case the application's memory usage goes beyond specified limits..

Memory usage Retrieval on Linux ( process wise and general )

How much RAM is used per program .


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