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how to get memory used by a particular process in unix?
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Which os? Physical or virtual memory? Even then the answer is murky. A process is a collection of objects, many of which are shared.
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Generally you can type

top

in a shell command line to see an overview of the system resources various processes are using. Hit the "q" key to exit the program again.

Good luck.
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Generally you can type

top

in a shell command line to see an overview of the system resources various processes are using. Hit the "q" key to exit the program again.

Good luck.
That is by no means available on all flavours of unix, for example Solaris does not by default include top.
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