As many/most of you should know, the Linux/UNIX "ps" command is
*EXTREMELY* misleading on accounting for *ACTUAL* ram in use by a
process. For example, it does not account for register windows being
used by the X server, nor sharing among processes that use the same
shared library.
Attached is a note from Tridge, pointing to a script that does a much
better job accounting to real usage.
Note that the Linux kernel has recently started doing a better job
accounting for memory usage as well (after 2.6.23-rc8-mm1).
- Jim
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Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
One Laptop Per Child
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Hi Jim,
I mentioned a memory usage script that tries to work out total memory
for a program (taking into account shared pages).
Here is a link:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py
There are other versions available, but as the above is in python I
thought you'd like it :-)
Cheers, Tridge
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