my mistake, I didn't see the "watch" in your response; i didn't know that command, hehe.
Thanks, Peter! Hai On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Peter Jay Salzman<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Peter Jay Salzman<[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Sat 22 Aug 09, 6:57 AM, Hai Yi <[email protected]> said: >> >> Hello friends: >> >> >> >> I was asked in an interview about the command to monitor the memory >> >> usage, and my answer was "top", however, the interviewer intended for >> >> the memory usage for individual process, and shamefully I couldn't >> >> come out with an answer, anyone can elaborate on it? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Hai >> > >> > Hello Hai, >> > >> > I would do something like this: >> > >> > watch "ps <some options> | grep <some keyword>" >> > >> > like: >> > >> > watch "ps aux | grep swiftfox" >> > > On Sat 22 Aug 09, 9:49 AM, Hai Yi <[email protected]> said: >> thanks pete, actually that's exactly what i responded, the interviewer >> didn't make a comment. > > Maybe he didn't know about the "watch" command? I've found that many people > never heard of "watch", even though it can be a really handy utility! > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
