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01-23-2013

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How to find memory taken by a process using top command?

I wanted to know how to find the memory taken by a process using top command. The output of the top command is as follows as an example:

Code:

Mem:  13333364k total, 13238904k used,    94460k free,   623640k buffers
Swap: 25165816k total,      112k used, 25165704k free,  4572904k cached

PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
16514 applmgr   25   0 2197m 1.7g  10m S  0.3 13.0  15:20.67 java
30692 crestelo  22   0 2901m 1.4g 9284 S  0.0 11.0   3:03.68 java
30431 crestelo  25   0 2043m 1.4g 161m S 50.9 11.0  79:02.73 java
30869 crestelo  25   0 2860m 1.2g 9292 S  0.0  9.6   7:11.18 java
16655 applmgr   23   0 1934m 1.1g  10m S  0.3  8.9   2:17.49 java
16319 crestelo  19   0 1541m 299m  44m S  0.0  2.3   2:52.11 java

I hope, my question is clear as to how to find the memory taken by a process using top command.

Please revert with the reply to my query.

Regards

Last edited by Scott; 01-23-2013 at 05:49 AM.. Reason: Code tags, please...

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wmtop

WMTOP(1)							   User Manuals 							  WMTOP(1)

NAME

       wmtop

SYNOPSIS

       wmtop [-c command] [-U] [-x regexp] [-m]

DESCRIPTION

       wmtop displays, as a WindowMaker dockapp, the CPU usage of the top 3 processes satisfying user supplied criteria.

OPTIONS

       -U     displays processes owned only for the current user.

       -c command
	      Execute command when dockapp is double clicked.

       -x regexp
	      Exclude  processes whose name matches the given regular expression. The regular expression need only match part of the process name.
	      Use '^' to mean the start of the name and '$' to mean the end.

       -m     Show (physical) memory usage rather than CPU usage. (Linux only)

       -s     Set interval between process samples in milliseconds.

       -r     Set interval between screen updates in milliseconds.

EXAMPLES

       Monitor only users processesr, exclude WindowMaker dock apps and pop up xps when double clicked:

	      wmtop -c xps -U -x '^wm'

       where we assume dock apps all have names starting with 'wm'.

BUGS

       Please report any bugs you may find to:

       wmtop-bugs@tanelorn.demon.co.uk

AUTHOR

       Dan Piponi <dan@tanelorn.demon.co.uk>

       http://www.tanelorn.demon.co.uk

SEE ALSO

       top(1)

Linux								     JUNE 1999								  WMTOP(1)

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