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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:18:24 -0800
From: "Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali)" <rarakali@...co.com>
To: Pádraig Brady <P@...igBrady.com>
Cc: "Vaidyanathan Srinivasan" <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Question about free/used memory on Linux
Thanks Padraig.
Any idea how to get the size of running linux kernel ?
Ravi
-----Original Message-----
From: Pádraig Brady [mailto:P@...igBrady.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3:58 AM
To: Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali)
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan; Linux Kernel
Subject: Re: Question about free/used memory on Linux
Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali) wrote:
> Hi Vaidy,
> What do you think is the right way to get the memory usage of a
> process, I mean the actual physical memory used ? Basically, I'm
> interested in the incremental cost of a process, which means, I don't
> want to include the text segments of shared libraries which would
> remain even after the process is killed (since it would be used by
> other processes).
>
> Is the RSS field of "ps aux" command the right one or use "pmap"
> command and look at the "writeable" segments ?
I already commented on this thread with a python script for reporting RAM usage for programs.
RSS = Private and Shared Resident pages.
You can get the shared value for a process from /proc/$$/smaps (as is done in the script)
Pádraig.
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