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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to examine the memory usage?? Post 33598 by RTM on Friday 10th of January 2003 04:07:54 PM
Old 01-10-2003
You may have to look closer at the ps command for process by process information (realize that this still does not give you anything but a snapshot of what is going on when you run it - building a script to collect the information might help.).

Determine process memory usage (Note 'accepted answer')

Another thing to note - you run the ps command and do your calculation. That uses memory, cpu. You run the free command and that uses cpu, memory...if you are on a single cpu server, there is no way you can run both commands at exactly the same time. Other processes will finish and give back memory, some will start up and eat up more. You need to understand that you would never get A=B.
 

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dappprof(1m)							   USER COMMANDS						      dappprof(1m)

NAME
dappprof - profile user and lib function usage. Uses DTrace. SYNOPSIS
dappprof [-acehoTU] [-u lib] { -p PID | command } DESCRIPTION
dappprof prints details on user and library call times for processes as a summary style aggragation. By default the user fuctions are traced, options can be used to trace library activity. Output can include function counts, elapsed times and on cpu times. The elapsed times are interesting, to help identify functions that take some time to complete (during which the process may have slept). CPU time helps us identify syscalls that are consuming CPU cycles to run. Since this uses DTrace, only users with root privileges can run this command. OPTIONS
-a print all data -c print function counts -e print elapsed times, ns -o print CPU times, ns -T print totals -p PID examine this PID -u lib trace this library instead -U trace all library and user functions EXAMPLES
run and examine the "df -h" command, # dappprof df -h print elapsed times, on-cpu times and counts for "df -h", # dappprof -ceo df -h print elapsed times for PID 1871, # dappprof -p 1871 print all data for PID 1871, # dappprof -ap 1871 FIELDS
CALL Function call name ELAPSED Total elapsed time, nanoseconds CPU Total on-cpu time, nanoseconds COUNT Number of occurrences DOCUMENTATION
See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the Docs directory. The DTraceToolkit docs may include full worked examples with ver- bose descriptions explaining the output. EXIT
dappprof will sample until Ctrl-C is hit. AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia] SEE ALSO
dapptrace(1M), dtrace(1M), apptrace(1) version 1.10 May 14, 2005 dappprof(1m)
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