Process memory question.

[Dan Track]

On 8/2/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> Dan Track wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Could someone please help me find a way to find out how much memory a
> > process is using, my question relates specifically to the analog
> > running wild on my server.
>
> top
>
> and then press
>
> Shift-M
>
> will give some idea.
>
> You can get a buttload of good info on a particular process from its
> Process ID number.  Eg, for PID 18053
>
> cat /proc/18053/status
>
> Name:   ekiga
> State:  S (sleeping)
> SleepAVG:       97%
> Tgid:   18053
> Pid:    18053
> PPid:   3249
> TracerPid:      0
> Uid:    500     500     500     500
> Gid:    500     500     500     500
> FDSize: 256
> Groups: 14 500
> VmPeak:   118920 kB
> VmSize:   118432 kB
> VmLck:         0 kB
> VmHWM:     23592 kB
> VmRSS:     23292 kB
> VmData:    18504 kB
> VmStk:        84 kB
> VmExe:       900 kB
> VmLib:     35996 kB
> VmPTE:       220 kB
> StaBrk: 081a2000 kB
> Brk:    09571000 kB
> StaStk: bfe32e20 kB
> Threads:        10
> SigQ:   0/20329
> SigPnd: 0000000000000000
> ShdPnd: 0000000000000000
> SigBlk: 0000000000000000
> SigIgn: 0000000000000000
> SigCgt: 000000018c005ef3
> CapInh: 0000000000000000
> CapPrm: 0000000000000000
> CapEff: 0000000000000000
> Cpus_allowed:   ffffffff
> Mems_allowed:   1
>
> For all these though, understand that shared libs get counted for every
> process, exploding the total figures given for all processes compared to
> actual global memory usage.
>

Hi

Thanks for the reply. It helps a lot. Is there a way to remove
references to the shared libs? Actually as an additional point
wouldn't we need to include the shared libs in the memory calculation
as they are being used by the process, or is my understanding lacking?

Thanks
Dan