Jim Gettys wrote:
> 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
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:39:51 +1000
> 
> Here is a link:
> 
>   http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py

Cool. I'm the author of that script.
If you have any changes you would like just yell.

Pádraig.
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