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GeneArch

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Registered: 2013-07-28

Posts: 92

Display memory used by processes

I made this little script to help me get the total memory consumed by 1 or more processes.
There's currently a bug in webkit which is used by evolution that creates many many webkit processes and they use up real memory - webkit bug]
So i needed a simple way to decide when to see how bad the memory usage is so I know when to restart evolution (which kills the webkit processes).

Example:

  process-mem -i '^webkit' 'evolution' 'bwrap'
                           Proc-Name : [num]      rss      vsz      shr
                           evolution : [  1]   559.5M    74.6G   224.9M
                WebKitNetworkProcess : [  2]   304.5M   133.4G   239.2M
                               bwrap : [ 98]   143.5M   271.4M   132.0M
                    WebKitWebProcess : [ 48]     9.7G     3.1T     8.5G
                               Total : [149]    10.6G     3.3T     9.0G

Defaults to matching processes owned by current user but can be specified. Process names matching is optionally case insensitive and supports regex.

Availabe in AUR
Source is in Github