Re: [SLUG] more precise measurements

From: blee2@tampabay.rr.com
Date: Wed Jul 22 2009 - 19:57:39 EDT


Thus Eben King hast written on Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:39:41PM -0400, and, according to prophecy, it shall come to pass that:
> Is there a way to get more precise information about how much RAM/swap a
> process uses? For instance, this line from top:
>
> PID USER NI VIRT RES SHR WCHAN S %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 19252 eben 0 1097m 529m 19m - S 15 13.4 409:18 firefox
>
> that shows the important data (VIRTual, RESident, and SHaRed) has 2-4 digit
> resolution. 4's good, 2's not. Straight page count would be best, of
> course. Never mind the width; this isn't for (direct) human consumption
> anyway.

Try reading the man pages for ps and vmstat....
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