> Memory management is tricky though. Hard to tell which values sum up to
> the
> real thing.
>
> Probably best meter on Linux is the actual free value highlighted
> below?
> Check it before starting amavisd/spamd/whatnot and check it again after
> running for a while. Also double check it after killing all the
> processes.
> I'm open to be proved otherwise..
>
> $ free
> total used free shared buffers
> cached
> Mem: 1047496 944236 103260 0 2904
> 284336
> -/+ buffers/cache: 656996 ___390500___
> Swap: 524272 266668 257604
Let's see if Private_ entries in smaps do the right thing.
This is the command I use to get allocated private memory from a process (in
kB):
awk 'BEGIN {p=0;} $1 ~ /Private_/ {p += $2;} END {print p;}'
/proc/PID/smaps
Besides, one can specify the smaps file of more than a process, not only
one.
Regards,
Giampaolo
