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ELC: How much memory are applications really using?

ELC: How much memory are applications really using?

Posted Apr 24, 2007 16:05 UTC (Tue) by richdawe (subscriber, #33805)
Parent article: ELC: How much memory are applications really using?

There's also a tool called exmap <http://www.berthels.co.uk/exmap/>, which does something similar, although perhaps not as comprehensively. There's also a console version for embedded applications, called exmap-console <http://projects.o-hand.com/exmap-console> -- there was an interesting presentation at FOSDEM on it.

I like the Proportional Set Size and Unique Set Size measurements mentioned in the article -- hopefully they will be exposed in top.


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ELC: How much memory are applications really using?

Posted Jun 29, 2007 12:10 UTC (Fri) by pixelbeat (guest, #7440) [Link]

Also have a look at the ps_mem.py tool

ELC: How much memory are applications really using?

Posted Sep 20, 2007 16:06 UTC (Thu) by pixelbeat (guest, #7440) [Link]

I've just updated ps_mem.py to use PSS when available:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py

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