Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali) wrote: > Hi Vaidy, > What do you think is the right way to get the memory usage of a > process, I mean the actual physical memory used ? Basically, > I'm interested in the incremental cost of a process, which > means, I don't want to include the text segments of shared > libraries which would remain even after the process is killed > (since it would be used by other processes). > > Is the RSS field of "ps aux" command the right one or use > "pmap" command and look at the "writeable" segments ?
I already commented on this thread with a python script for reporting RAM usage for programs. RSS = Private and Shared Resident pages. You can get the shared value for a process from /proc/$$/smaps (as is done in the script) Pádraig. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
