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+# PSSTOP
+
+The main purpose of a computer system is to execute programs. These programs,
+together with the data they access, must be at least partially in main memory
+during execution. As a developer and user are necessary to know the amount of
+memory consumed by every process in execution. PSSTOP helps to get this
+information in an accurate way.
+
+PSSTOP gets the memory of each process from:
+
+    /proc/PID/smaps
+
+The /proc/PID/smaps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory
+consumption for each of the process's mappings. For each of mappings there
+is a series of lines such as the following:
+
+    Size:               1084 kB
+    Rss:                 892 kB
+    Pss:                 374 kB
+    Shared_Clean:        892 kB
+    Shared_Dirty:          0 kB
+    Private_Clean:         0 kB
+    Private_Dirty:         0 kB
+    Referenced:          892 kB
+    Anonymous:             0 kB
+    AnonHugePages:         0 kB
+    ShmemPmdMapped:        0 kB
+    Shared_Hugetlb:        0 kB
+    Private_Hugetlb:       0 kB
+    Swap:                  0 kB
+    SwapPss:               0 kB
+    KernelPageSize:        4 kB
+    MMUPageSize:           4 kB
+    Locked:                0 kB
+
+PPSTOP tracks the amount of memory from the process' proportional share of this
+mapping (Pss) and the proportional swap share of the mapping (SwapPss).
+
+Others tools like ps doesn't give an acurate detail of which processes are
+consuming the memory of our system . Depending on how you look at it, ps is not
+reporting the real memory usage of processes. What it is really doing is
+showing how much real memory each process would take up if it were the only
+process running.
+
+## Installation
+
+    autoreconf --install
+
+    make
+
+    make install
+
+## Usage
+
+    psstop
+
+    [...]
+
+    0 Kb: (sd-pam) (24051)
+    1122 Kb: tmux: server (31523)
+    4 Kb: bash (31524)
+    4 Kb: bash (31525)
+    4 Kb: vim (31684)
+    Total is 14958Kb (174 processes)
+
+## Contributing
+
+1. Fork it!
+2. Create your feature branch: `git checkout -b my-new-feature`
+3. Commit your changes: `git commit -am 'Add some feature'`
+4. Push to the branch: `git push origin my-new-feature`
+5. Submit a pull request :D
+
+## Authors
+
+    Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
+
+## License
+
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, version 3 or later of the License
+