Ralf Hildebrandt:
> Simple question: How much RAM does a process actually use?
> But how to find out? There's copy on write, shared libraries, shared
> memory, and whatever.
With Linux, parse /proc/pid/map for each process. This gives you
the memory mapping. Writable mappings are non-shared and count
for each process (this is an over-estimate in case of copy-on-write).
Read-only mappings count only once.
Wietse
> How do I actually SEE how much memory my cleanup, smtpd and smtp
> processes use (all processes, actually), so I can properly size my
> default_process_limit - without running into deep swap.
>
> Which tools do I use on what platform?
> ps? top? htop?
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