mem-monitor-smaps

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NAME

mem-monitor-smaps - output process (or system) memory usage at given intervals

CONTENTS

Synopsis
Description
Options
Example Output
See Also
Copyright

SYNOPSIS

mem-monitor-smaps [-i <interval>] [-p <process>]

DESCRIPTION

mem-monitor-smaps outputs (one-liner) process or system memory usage information from /proc/meminfo at given intervals.

OPTIONS

-i The interval between memory usage information updates. By default the interval is 5 seconds.
-p The process ID (or name) which the tool should monitor. If this is omitted, the whole system memory usage is monitored instead.

EXAMPLE OUTPUT

Example mem-monitor-smaps output (invoked with mem-monitor-smaps -p esd):

System free and memory usage for /usr/bin/esd[1004] according to SMAPS.
(without swap as SMAPS doesn't report swap correctly)

system process ,--- dirty ---.
time: free: size: rss: shared: private:
05:10:28 42908 2168 640 0 212 kB
05:10:33 42912 2168 640 0 212 kB
05:10:38 42920 2168 640 0 212 kB

SEE ALSO

proc(1), memusage(1)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2008 Nokia Corporation.

This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 included with the software. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.



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