Tag: Unix

Quick useful function to get all of the memory in use by a process or set of processes from a bash prompt: memuse() { arr=`ps aux | grep -E $1 | grep -v grep | sed -e ‘s/[^ \t]*[ \t]*[^ \t]*[ \t]*[^ \t]*[ \t]*//’ | sed -e ‘s/[ \t].*//’` sum=0 for i in $arr do […]