Month: October 2016

This simple Linux command one-liner will give you the process name, PID, and memory usage in kb: for file in /proc/*/status ; do awk ‘/^Pid|VmRSS|Name/{printf $2 ” ” $3}END{ print “”}’ $file; done | sort -k 3 -n -r | less Produces something like the following: R 19173 8206748 kB R 19305 7097212 kB clamd Read More …

In Linux, there is a relatively simple way to track memory and swap usage by process.  First look to the directory “/procs”.  Here you will see a list of subdirectories named by running process ids (PIDs).  Each subdirectory contains files and other directories that contain useful information about that process.  For the metrics we want, Read More …