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A utility to accurately report the in core memory usage for a program

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2015-12-01 · latest 2026-05-11

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  1. …ps_mem.py [1] - I suggest using this instead of ps to avoid confusion around shared memory. [1] - https://github.com/pixelb/ps_mem
    comment by Bender · 2026-05-11 · in Linux Terminal Memory Usage
  2. …more (fuller list here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31765186 ). With that said, `ps_mem` ( https://github.com/pixelb/ps_mem ) reports that the memory usage is 58.7 MiB after starting the Tauri application. If I run just the HTTP…
    comment by capableweb · 2022-06-16 · in Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
  3. …And there are a myriad of command incantations to massage existing data in one-liners [2] [1] - https://github.com/pixelb/ps_mem/ [2] - https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/memory/bWVtb...
    comment by LinuxBender · 2021-08-02 · in Measuring memory usage: virtual versus real memory
  4. …try: dillo, midori, epiphany. Also, ps_mem can be good for tracking what is using up your memory: https://github.com/pixelb/ps_mem
    comment by partycoder · 2018-03-11 · in Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
  5. There is also ps_mem.py: https://github.com/pixelb/ps_mem "A utility to accurately report the core memory usage for a program."
    comment by ashayh · 2018-01-18 · in How to Measure the Working Set Size on Linux
  6. Note that's virtual memory. For determining real RAM usage for programs, I find https://github.com/pixelb/ps_mem extremely useful
    comment by pixelbeat · 2015-12-01 · in Linux Performance Analysis