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kiguru

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Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 31

how to see a prticular program memory usage?

how to see a particular program(mplayer) memory usage?

Kknd

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From: Brazil, Santa Catarina

Registered: 2007-08-15

Posts: 100

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Re: how to see a prticular program memory usage?

You can use top, or see the diff between two free (before and after starting the program), or you can use the gnome  kde system monitor. Take care with the kde one, that shows shared memory too by default.

Seeing the exact memory use is very complicated (thare's a lot of efforts to accomplish that).

Last edited by Kknd (2008-01-05 16:43:14)

wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Re: how to see a prticular program memory usage?

Hi,
you can use

ps v -C opera

(Replace Opera with mplayer) as well.

It will give you an output similar to the following:

  PID TTY      STAT   TIME  MAJFL   TRS   DRS   RSS %MEM COMMAND
 8172 ?        Sl     0:07      0 12856 179519 61320  6.0 /usr/lib/opera/9.50-20071213.2/opera -style plastik

The RSS column will show you a value close to the memory consumption, in my case about 60MB.

Last edited by wuischke (2008-01-05 17:49:27)

kiguru

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Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 31

Re: how to see a prticular program memory usage?

thanx wuischke

bionnaki

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Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 289

Re: how to see a prticular program memory usage?

I like htop

pacman -S htop

and then run htop
see F2 for options

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

Posts: 5,000

Re: how to see a prticular program memory usage?

When I try ...ps v -C mplayer in a terminal, I cannot enter the .....  -C...

Why?

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wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Re: how to see a prticular program memory usage?

Mh...it's offtopic, but what console keymap are you using? Does it work with copy and paste? (I assume you wrote this post on the same computer where you have the problem.)

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

Posts: 5,000

Re: how to see a prticular program memory usage?

Found a way to workaround it...using caps lock works....

Thanks for reply.

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