Ps-mem - Another Memory Monitoring Tool
I have a new favourite memory monitoring tool. It provides a nice breakdown of the memory used by each running process, along with a total as shown below:
Private + Shared = RAM used Program
4.0 KiB + 11.0 KiB = 15.0 KiB cat
64.0 KiB + 10.5 KiB = 74.5 KiB uml_switch
100.0 KiB + 25.5 KiB = 125.5 KiB atd
172.0 KiB + 34.5 KiB = 206.5 KiB upstart-event-bridge
192.0 KiB + 20.5 KiB = 212.5 KiB acpid
188.0 KiB + 29.0 KiB = 217.0 KiB rpc.idmapd
204.0 KiB + 20.0 KiB = 224.0 KiB mdadm
208.0 KiB + 23.5 KiB = 231.5 KiB irqbalance
208.0 KiB + 41.5 KiB = 249.5 KiB rpc.statd
224.0 KiB + 46.0 KiB = 270.0 KiB kerneloops
248.0 KiB + 33.5 KiB = 281.5 KiB bluetoothd
248.0 KiB + 38.0 KiB = 286.0 KiB rtkit-daemon
268.0 KiB + 41.0 KiB = 309.0 KiB cron
272.0 KiB + 40.5 KiB = 312.5 KiB rpcbind
332.0 KiB + 27.0 KiB = 359.0 KiB upstart-socket-bridge
324.0 KiB + 35.5 KiB = 359.5 KiB dnsmasq
340.0 KiB + 65.5 KiB = 405.5 KiB unity-webapps-service
292.0 KiB + 135.5 KiB = 427.5 KiB master
280.0 KiB + 151.0 KiB = 431.0 KiB qmgr
504.0 KiB + 60.5 KiB = 564.5 KiB systemd-logind
536.0 KiB + 66.0 KiB = 602.0 KiB upstart-dbus-bridge (2)
488.0 KiB + 119.0 KiB = 607.0 KiB cups-browsed
464.0 KiB + 149.0 KiB = 613.0 KiB pickup
508.0 KiB + 138.0 KiB = 646.0 KiB getty (6)
528.0 KiB + 138.0 KiB = 666.0 KiB dbus
616.0 KiB + 75.0 KiB = 691.0 KiB gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor [updated]
660.0 KiB + 33.0 KiB = 693.0 KiB upstart-udev-bridge
652.0 KiB + 43.0 KiB = 695.0 KiB rpc.mountd
636.0 KiB + 78.0 KiB = 714.0 KiB at-spi-bus-launcher
656.0 KiB + 70.5 KiB = 726.5 KiB gvfsd-burn [updated]
664.0 KiB + 76.5 KiB = 740.5 KiB gvfsd [updated]
548.0 KiB + 196.5 KiB = 744.5 KiB whoopsie
660.0 KiB + 90.5 KiB = 750.5 KiB ibus-dconf
720.0 KiB + 72.5 KiB = 792.5 KiB gvfsd-metadata [updated]
588.0 KiB + 210.5 KiB = 798.5 KiB avahi-daemon (2)
716.0 KiB + 86.0 KiB = 802.0 KiB at-spi2-registryd
748.0 KiB + 88.5 KiB = 836.5 KiB indicator-power-service
788.0 KiB + 56.0 KiB = 844.0 KiB dconf-service
856.0 KiB + 85.5 KiB = 941.5 KiB gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor [updated]
824.0 KiB + 134.0 KiB = 958.0 KiB ModemManager
488.0 KiB + 472.5 KiB = 960.5 KiB window-stack-bridge
984.0 KiB + 87.0 KiB = 1.0 MiB upstart-file-bridge (2)
992.0 KiB + 89.0 KiB = 1.1 MiB ibus-engine-simple
1.0 MiB + 55.5 KiB = 1.1 MiB systemd-udevd
884.0 KiB + 239.0 KiB = 1.1 MiB ccnet
960.0 KiB + 191.5 KiB = 1.1 MiB mission-control-5
1.0 MiB + 136.5 KiB = 1.1 MiB gvfsd-http
1.2 MiB + 131.5 KiB = 1.3 MiB upowerd
1.1 MiB + 276.0 KiB = 1.3 MiB geoclue-master
1.0 MiB + 580.5 KiB = 1.6 MiB sudo (2)
1.5 MiB + 85.0 KiB = 1.6 MiB tmux
1.6 MiB + 88.5 KiB = 1.7 MiB gconfd-2
1.4 MiB + 321.5 KiB = 1.7 MiB ubuntu-geoip-provider
1.8 MiB + 180.0 KiB = 1.9 MiB NetworkManager
1.7 MiB + 216.5 KiB = 2.0 MiB console-kit-daemon
1.8 MiB + 221.0 KiB = 2.0 MiB ibus-x11
1.9 MiB + 270.0 KiB = 2.1 MiB indicator-sound-service
1.8 MiB + 386.0 KiB = 2.2 MiB cupsd
2.3 MiB + 115.0 KiB = 2.5 MiB accounts-daemon
2.4 MiB + 179.5 KiB = 2.5 MiB zeitgeist-daemon [updated]
2.0 MiB + 620.5 KiB = 2.6 MiB virsh
2.3 MiB + 274.5 KiB = 2.6 MiB polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
2.6 MiB + 70.0 KiB = 2.7 MiB indicator-bluetooth-service
2.6 MiB + 123.5 KiB = 2.7 MiB gvfsd-trash [updated]
2.7 MiB + 84.0 KiB = 2.8 MiB gvfsd-fuse [updated]
2.5 MiB + 355.5 KiB = 2.9 MiB evolution-source-registry
2.9 MiB + 92.0 KiB = 3.0 MiB indicator-messages-service
2.9 MiB + 134.0 KiB = 3.0 MiB deja-dup-monitor
3.1 MiB + 162.0 KiB = 3.3 MiB indicator-application-service
3.1 MiB + 281.0 KiB = 3.4 MiB lightdm [updated] (2)
3.1 MiB + 386.0 KiB = 3.5 MiB telepathy-indicator
3.0 MiB + 490.0 KiB = 3.5 MiB pulseaudio
3.5 MiB + 109.5 KiB = 3.6 MiB polkitd
3.6 MiB + 101.0 KiB = 3.7 MiB gnome-keyring-daemon
3.4 MiB + 370.0 KiB = 3.7 MiB gnome-session
3.6 MiB + 174.5 KiB = 3.8 MiB colord
3.5 MiB + 397.0 KiB = 3.8 MiB indicator-printers-service
3.7 MiB + 302.0 KiB = 4.0 MiB init (2)
3.8 MiB + 466.5 KiB = 4.3 MiB dbus-daemon (3)
4.2 MiB + 208.5 KiB = 4.4 MiB gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor [updated]
1.2 MiB + 3.2 MiB = 4.5 MiB sshd (5)
4.6 MiB + 83.5 KiB = 4.7 MiB gvfs-afc-volume-monitor [updated]
4.5 MiB + 289.5 KiB = 4.8 MiB zeitgeist-datahub [updated]
4.4 MiB + 410.0 KiB = 4.8 MiB unity-scope-home
4.5 MiB + 341.5 KiB = 4.9 MiB unity-fallback-mount-helper [updated]
5.3 MiB + 104.5 KiB = 5.4 MiB indicator-session-service
5.3 MiB + 316.0 KiB = 5.6 MiB indicator-datetime-service
5.4 MiB + 451.5 KiB = 5.8 MiB ibus-ui-gtk3
5.5 MiB + 490.5 KiB = 6.0 MiB nm-applet
5.1 MiB + 920.5 KiB = 6.0 MiB notify-osd
5.6 MiB + 499.5 KiB = 6.0 MiB libvirtd
5.9 MiB + 439.5 KiB = 6.3 MiB update-notifier
6.3 MiB + 113.0 KiB = 6.4 MiB ibus-daemon
6.2 MiB + 204.5 KiB = 6.4 MiB udisksd
6.7 MiB + 51.0 KiB = 6.7 MiB rsyslogd
6.7 MiB + 464.0 KiB = 7.2 MiB bamfdaemon
7.1 MiB + 343.0 KiB = 7.4 MiB indicator-keyboard-service
7.1 MiB + 656.5 KiB = 7.8 MiB unity-settings-daemon [updated]
7.4 MiB + 450.0 KiB = 7.9 MiB unity-files-daemon
7.8 MiB + 828.0 KiB = 8.6 MiB psensor
10.3 MiB + 683.0 KiB = 10.9 MiB unity-scope-loader
11.7 MiB + 530.5 KiB = 12.2 MiB zeitgeist-fts [updated]
6.0 MiB + 7.2 MiB = 13.2 MiB apache2 (6)
12.4 MiB + 963.0 KiB = 13.3 MiB bash (4)
19.7 MiB + 1.4 MiB = 21.1 MiB synapse
24.4 MiB + 936.5 KiB = 25.3 MiB hud-service
25.6 MiB + 1.9 MiB = 27.4 MiB seafile-applet
28.7 MiB + 1.0 MiB = 29.7 MiB unity-panel-service
31.3 MiB + 379.5 KiB = 31.7 MiB evolution-calendar-factory
34.2 MiB + 485.0 KiB = 34.7 MiB seaf-daemon
30.1 MiB + 7.9 MiB = 38.0 MiB python2.7 (4)
65.9 MiB + 9.2 MiB = 75.1 MiB nautilus
78.1 MiB + 17.1 MiB = 95.2 MiB Xorg
201.3 MiB + 8.4 MiB = 209.8 MiB plugin-container
250.1 MiB + 10.2 MiB = 260.3 MiB compiz
302.7 MiB + 8.6 MiB = 311.3 MiB firefox
6.4 GiB + 482.6 MiB = 6.9 GiB qemu-system-x86_64 (17)
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8.3 GiB
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This is in stark contrast to htop, which proved a whole lot less useful as demonstrated from the same server below:
Note: Observant readers may have noticed that htop is showing far more memory being utilized than the 8.3 GiB that ps-mem showed. For some reason, the ZFS ARC does not register in htop, top, or ps-mem it seems.
Installation
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pixelb/ps_mem/master/ps_mem.py
sudo mv ps_mem.py /usr/sbin/ps-mem
sudo chmod +x /usr/sbin/ps-mem
Usage
General
sudo ps-mem
Non-grouped
If you don't want similar processes to be grouped (such as my qemu-system in the example above), then run:
sudo ps-mem --split-args
More usage information can be found on the developer's Github page.
References
Last updated: 16th August 2018
First published: 16th August 2018
First published: 16th August 2018