Always felt that ps and top were largely useless to tell anything meaningful about memory usage. Here are some links to more useful tools:
- Stackoverflow: A way to determine a process’s “real” memory usage, i.e. private dirty RSS?
- Find out what is using your swap
- Memory usage with smaps (the script seems to have moved here)
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[…] Ernst – NetMesh: Some notes on Linux memory usage http://upon2020.com/2012/04/some-notes-on-linux-memory-usage/ Always felt that ps and top were largely useless to tell anything meaningful about memory usage. […]