[ILUG] memory listing tool ?

[P at draigBrady.com]

P at draigBrady.com wrote:
> John P. Looney wrote:
> 
>> Is there a good tool out there for telling you what each app is using ?
>> For instance, say apache has 250 processes...I want to
>> know how much memory is being used by apache vs. by MySQL and it's 100 
>> odd threads.
> 
> Ah you want to combine process counts and ignored
> multiple thread listsings. Is this of any use?
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> #This scripts assumes threads are already merged by ps
> 
> import sys, os
> 
> cmds={}
> for line in os.popen("ps -Al | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f10,14 | sed 1d | 
> sort -k1,1n").readlines():
>     size, cmd = line.split()
>     cmds[cmd]=cmds.setdefault(cmd,0)+int(size)
> 
> sort_list = cmds.items()
> sort_list.sort(lambda x,y:cmp(x[1],y[1]))
> 
> for cmd in sort_list:
>     print "%20s %s" % (cmd[0], cmd[1])

Well 16 months and 1 job later I'm not sure you'd
appreciate an update :-) But I needed this myself so...

The previous was less than useful as it counted the
virtual size and didn't handle shared mem at all.

This script should be a lot more accurate:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py

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