see how much ram a program is using

[Red Squirrel]

What is an easy way to monitor how much ram a certain app is using?

I know top and ps aux sorta does it, but I don't care about resident, shared etc... I just want to know how much memory its using, either from ram, or swap. Basically I want an equivalent to the number shown in the task manager list in windows.

 

[xSauronx]

gnome system monitor? 😉

Memory Usage Retrieval

How Much Ram is used per program?

maybe those will help, i dont know anything really about scripting, but the output examples show what you seem to be looking for, so maybe those links will help

 

[BlueAcolyte]

What desktop environment? I know XFCE comes with Xterm and LXDE has a task manager.

 

[Net]

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/...s-my-linux-system.html

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm looking for text based one (no GUI - its a server). Really something that lists all programs and how much memory they use would work, then I can just grep out whatever I need.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
I'm looking for text based one (no GUI - its a server). Really something that lists all programs and how much memory they use would work, then I can just grep out whatever I need.

the second link i provided shows examples where this is *exactly* what is being done, is it not what you were looking for?

 

[dinkumthinkum]

Resident (RSS) is the number you want. Why would you not care about it?

 

[kedlav]

glance functions on a similar level to top...