A utility to accurately report the core memory usage for a program
Yes the name is a bit weird. coremem would be more appropriate, but for backwards compatible reasons the ps_mem name remains.
Usage:
ps_mem [-h|--help] [-s|--split-args] [-p PID] [-w N]
Example output:
Private + Shared = RAM used Program
34.6 MiB + 1.0 MiB = 35.7 MiB gnome-terminal
139.8 MiB + 2.3 MiB = 142.1 MiB firefox
291.8 MiB + 2.5 MiB = 294.3 MiB gnome-shell
272.2 MiB + 43.9 MiB = 316.1 MiB chrome (12)
913.9 MiB + 3.2 MiB = 917.1 MiB thunderbird
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1.9 GiB
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The [-p PID] option allows filtering the results. For example to restrict output to the current $USER you could:
sudo ps_mem -p $(pgrep -u $USER | paste -d, -s)