Memory Usage by Bytes Top 10

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I need a way to see how many bytes to top ten processes are using not percentage. I am using centos

Your question is vague and ambiguous. Are you asking about *physical* memory? — David Schwartz, Aug 27 '11 at 15:29
yes, I want to know how many bytes the top programs are using so I can monitor it over time and figure out why the resources are growing and on what. — David, Aug 27 '11 at 16:12

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 27 '11 at 16:48

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it would be better to use ps with head

ps aux --sort -rss | head -10

The RSS field shows physical memory usage in KB.

edited Aug 27 '11 at 16:48

David Schwartz

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answered Aug 27 '11 at 04:22

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This displays memory percentage. I would really like to see how many bytes in KB or MB. – David Aug 27 '11 at 04:32
no look on the rss column – Mike Aug 27 '11 at 04:33
is -rss bytes? KB? MB? – David Aug 27 '11 at 04:53
it is in KB that is your resident memory – Mike Aug 27 '11 at 16:29
This seems like your answer. The 'RSS' field has your answer in KB. – David Schwartz Aug 27 '11 at 16:32
yea KB is fine i can divide it out to show as MB and GB. Thanks – David Aug 27 '11 at 17:23

quanta · Answer 2 · 2012-07-20T02:12:40.870

I just notice that rss is in kiloBytes.

I created an awk script to print sizes in human readable format:

#!/usr/bin/awk

{
    hr[1024**2]="GB"; hr[1024]="MB";
    for (x=1024**3; x>=1024; x/=1024) {
        if ($1>=x) {
            printf ("%-6.1f %s ", $1/x, hr[x]); break
        }
    }
}
{ printf ("%-6s %-10s ", $2, $3) }
{ for ( x=4 ; x<=NF ; x++ ) { printf ("%s ",$x) } print ("") }

and pipe the ps output to:

$ ps --no-headers -eo rss,pid,user,command --sort -rss | head -10 | awk -f topmem.awk

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 27 '11 at 04:26

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top and hit M sorts by resident memory usage. Quickest and easiest I know of.

answered Aug 27 '11 at 04:26

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