Ken Bloom wrote: > There are various GUI tools (gtop) comes to mind that act like top. > > ps can tell you the current memory usage of a given program (when used > in conjunction with grep), and as Pete mentioned, the watch command can > get you that information updated continuously.
G/top and those like it are good for some things but not for a single process. ps -ef | grep name-of-process ps --pid=?????? Replace name-of-process with the name of the process you are looking at (such as sendmail) will give you the info. But you can also look for the process ID itself if you know it using the '--pid=??????' where you replace the '?????' with the PID of the process you want info for (note: you may need to use ps to get the PID of the process). Tony _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech