psstop/psstop.1.md

psstop(1) -- memory snapshot of the current processes based on /proc

SYNOPSIS

psstop

DESCRIPTION

PSSTOP tracks the amount of memory from the process's proportional share of this mapping (Pss) and the proportional swap share of the mapping (SwapPss). The memory information comes from smaps (/proc/PID/smaps). The /proc/PID/smaps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption for each of the process's mappings.

SYNTAX

psstop is meant to be directly executed from the command line as :

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)

EXIT STATUS

On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

COPYRIGHT

• 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

SEE ALSO

• ps(1)

• free(1)