[vox-tech] command to monitor memory usage

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Sat Aug 22 22:37:15 PDT 2009


On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 09:37:49PM -0500, Ken Bloom wrote:
> Top is good if you get the filtering and sorting options right so that
> the process you're interested in stays on the list (and doesn't get
> crowded out of the list by more resource-hungry programs).
<snip>

Not that I've ever really done it, but it's probably also reasonable
to go into /proc/{PROCESS_ID}/ and do a 'cat status' and/or some other
'file(s).'  No?

-bill!


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