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From: Ketil Froyn <ketil-kernel@froyn.net>
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Subject: Re: Need assistance in determining memory usage
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On 4 Nov 2002, Thomas Schenk wrote:

> Q. How can you determine how much memory a process is using at a given
> point in time?  Specifically, I want to know of a method or tool that
> will tell me how much total memory a process is using, how much of that
> total is shared with other processes, how much is resident, and how much
> is swapped out.

/proc/<pid>/{stat,statm,status} are probably helpful. There's some info on
this in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

Ketil

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