Memory Utilization on Linux

[Nilesh]

Thanks for the reply but pmem gives memory utilization
in percentage I want in kb's or mb's
it is actutal memory utilzation 

--- chockalingam <chockalingam.shanmugam at gmail.com>
wrote:

> try pmem along with the command you used :
> 
> #ps -eo rss,pcpu,comm,user,pid,time,*pmem* |sort
> -rnk1|head -20
> 
> --lingam
> 
> 
> On 3/29/07, Nilesh <niluforalways at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to know how much physical memory
> > consumned by each runing applications on Linux
> > The ps and top are showing different outputs, I
> could
> > not find it out , what ammount of actual memory
> > consumed by each runing process on my system
> >
> > The scenario is :
> >
> > The physcial memory installed on Linux system is
> > 1024MB
> >
> > Top command output :
> >
> > top - 02:11:57 up 18:48,  2 users,  load average:
> > 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> > Tasks: 126 total,   1 running, 125 sleeping,   0
> > stopped,   0 zombie
> > Cpu(s):  0.0% us,  0.2% sy,  0.0% ni, 99.8% id, 
> 0.0%
> > wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
> > Mem:   1026328k total,   810848k used,   215480k
> free,
> >   47032k buffers
> > Swap:  2040244k total,        0k used,  2040244k
> free,
> > 316708k cached
> >
> > Free command output :
> >
> > Free -mt
> >                        total       used       free
> > shared    buffers     cached
> > Mem:                1002        791        210
> > 0         45        309
> > -/+ buffers/cache:              436        565
> > Swap:               1992          0         1992
> > Total:                 2994        791       2203
> >
> > The free command is showing 436MB used and 565MB
> is
> > free but the Top command is showing 810MB is used
> and
> > 215MB is free
> > why cached is showing 309MB is it swap memory If I
> > calculate it comes to 436+309+45=791 how cache is
> > distributed with each application
> > is cache and VIRT is same
> >
> > could anyone tell me how do I find out exact
> physical
> > memory occupied by each applications.
> >
> > If go with ps command, is RSS is write value or
> > Virtual Memory + RSS ( Resident set size) value
> >
> > #ps -eo rss,pcpu,comm,user,pid,time |sort
> -rnk1|head
> > -20
> >
> > 242896  0.1 java           501       5294 00:01:28
> > 27628  0.0 spamd           root      3314 00:00:01
> > 25380  0.0 spamd           root      3093 00:00:00
> > 23624  0.0 spamd           root      3315 00:00:00
> > 22656  0.0 mysqld          mysql     9573 00:00:00
> > 22656  0.0 mysqld          mysql     5415 00:00:02
> > 22656  0.0 mysqld          mysql     5340 00:00:00
> > 22656  0.0 mysqld          mysql     5336 00:00:00
> > 22656  0.0 mysqld          mysql     3322 00:00:00
> > 22656  0.0 mysqld          mysql     3321 00:00:00
> > 22656  0.0 mysqld          mysql     3320 00:00:00
> > 22656  0.0 mysqld          mysql     3319 00:00:00
> > 22656  0.0 mysqld          mysql     3311 00:00:00
> > 22656  0.0 mysqld          mysql     3310 00:00:00
> > 22656  0.0 mysqld          mysql     3309 00:00:00
> > 22656  0.0 mysqld          mysql     3308 00:00:00
> > 22656  0.0 mysqld          mysql     3307 00:00:00
> > 22656  0.0 mysqld          mysql     3233 00:00:00
> > 22656  0.0 mysqld          mysql    22854 00:00:00
> > 22656  0.0 mysqld          mysql    22853 00:00:00
> >
> > Thanks
> > Nilesh
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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