Re: Need assistance in determining memory usage

[Richard B. Johnson]

In /proc there are a bunch of directories that are numbered.
These numbers correspond to the PID of each process.
In each of these directories is a file called "status".

This file contains most all the information you need just
in case you don't like `ps` or `top`.

Name:	init
State:	S (sleeping)
Tgid:	1
Pid:	1
PPid:	0
TracerPid:	0
Uid:	0	0	0	0
Gid:	0	0	0	0
FDSize:	32
Groups:	
VmSize:	     224 kB              Total virtual memory accessed so far.
VmLck:	       0 kB              Locks held
VmRSS:	     148 kB              Resident virtual memory (not swapped)
VmData:	      28 kB              Data virtual memory
VmStk:	       4 kB              Stack virtual memory
VmExe:	     184 kB              Executable virtual memory
VmLib:	       0 kB              Shared library
SigPnd:	0000000000000000
SigBlk:	0000000000000000
SigIgn:	0000000057f0defc
SigCgt:	00000000280b2003
CapInh:	0000000000000000
CapPrm:	00000000ffffffff
CapEff:	00000000fffffeff

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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