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How to do top in batch mode and sort by ram?

Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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I was going through the man page and it mentions you can use -o to sort by different elements such as ram. So I figured I'd try -o=m for memory but after guessing the syntax a few times I don't think -o even exists. (Tried -O too).

Anyone know of a way to sort when using batch mode?

 
Do you mean 'ps'?

ps aux --sort rss # sort by resident-state size

rss is a measure of the physical RAM in use by a process. You didn't specify if you wanted physical frame usage, or virtual address space size.
 
I prefer top, as it shows the actual ram usage not just the %, or is there a way to get the actual on there? The most info I can get the better, as I'm using this in a php script to display system info in a web app with search and sort feature.
 
Ok I figured it out, I can specify what I want with -o. RSS is good, but is there a way to get a total amount of memory so counting swap etc, or at least individual (I can always add it up)?
 
but is there a way to get a total amount of memory so counting swap etc, or at least individual (I can always add it up)?
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Not really because it'll never be completely accurate. Even the RSS and swap counters aren't completely right because of shared pages, swap caching, etc.
 
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