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SMEM(8) SMEM(8)
smem - Report memory usage with shared memory divided proportionally.
smem [options]
smem reports physical memory usage, taking shared memory pages into
account. Unshared memory is reported as the USS (Unique Set Size).
Shared memory is divided evenly among the processes sharing that
memory. The unshared memory (USS) plus a process's proportion of
shared memory is reported as the PSS (Proportional Set Size). The
USS and PSS only include physical memory usage. They do not include
memory that has been swapped out to disk.
Memory can be reported by process, by user, by mapping, or
systemwide. Both text mode and graphical output are available.
GENERAL OPTIONS
-h, --help
Show help.
SOURCE DATA
By default, smem will pull most of the data it needs from the /proc
filesystem of the system it is running on. The --source option lets
you used a tarred set of /proc data saved earlier, possibly on a
different machine. The --kernel and --realmem options let you
specify a couple things that smem cannot discover on its own.
-K KERNEL, --kernel=KERNEL
Path to an uncompressed kernel image. This lets smem include
the size of the kernel's code and statically allocated data in
the systemwide (-w) output. (To obtain an uncompressed image
of a kernel on disk, you may need to build the kernel
yourself, then locate file vmlinux in the source tree.)
-R REALMEM, --realmem=REALMEM
Amount of physical RAM. This lets smem detect the amount of
memory used by firmware/hardware in the systemwide (-w)
output. If provided, it will also be used as the total memory
size to base percentages on. Example: --realmem=1024M
-S SOURCE, --source=SOURCE
/proc data source. This lets you specify an alternate source
of the /proc data. For example, you can capture data from an
embedded system using smemcap, and parse the data later on a
different machine. If the --source option is not included,
smem reports memory usage on the running system.
REPORT BY
If none of the following options are included, smem reports memory
usage by process.
-m, --mappings
Report memory usage by mapping.
-u, --users
Report memory usage by user.
-w, --system
Report systemwide memory usage summary.
FILTER BY
If none of these options are included, memory usage is reported for
all processes, users, or mappings. (Note: If you are running as a
non-root user, and if you are not using the --source options, then
you will only see data from processes whose /proc/ information you
have access to.)
-M MAPFILTER, --mapfilter=MAPFILTER
Mapping filter regular expression.
-P PROCESSFILTER, --processfilter=PROCESSFILTER
Process filter regular expression.
-U USERFILTER, --userfilter=USERFILTER
User filter regular expression.
OUTPUT FORMATTING
-a, --autosize
Size columns to fit terminal size.
-c COLUMNS, --columns=COLUMNS
Columns to show.
-H, --no-header
Disable header line.
-k, --abbreviate
Show unit suffixes.
-n, --numeric
Show numeric user IDs instead of usernames.
-p, --percent
Show percentages.
-r, --reverse
Reverse sort.
-s SORT, --sort=SORT
Field to sort on.
-t, --totals
Show totals.
OUTPUT TYPE
These options specify graphical output styles.
--bar=BAR
Show bar graph.
--pie=PIE
Show pie graph.
smem requires:
· Linux kernel providing 'Pss' metric in /proc/<pid>/smaps
(generally 2.6.27 or newer).
· Python 2.x (at least 2.4 or so).
· The matplotlib library (only if you want to generate graphical
charts).
To capture memory statistics on resource-constrained systems, the the
smem source includes a utility named smemcap. smemcap captures all
/proc entries required by smem and outputs them as an uncompressed
.tar file to STDOUT. smem can analyze the output using the --source
option. smemcap is small and does not require Python.
To use smemcap:
1. Obtain the smem source at http://selenic.com/repo/smem
2. Compile smemcap.c for your target system.
3. Run smemcap on the target system and save the output:
smemcap > memorycapture.tar
4. Copy the output to another machine and run smem on it:
smem -S memorycapture.tar
/proc/$pid/cmdline
/proc/$pid/smaps
/proc/$pid/stat
/proc/meminfo
/proc/version
Main Web Site: http://www.selenic.com/smem
Source code repository: http://selenic.com/repo/smem
Mailing list: http://selenic.com/mailman/listinfo/smem
free(1), pmap(1), proc(5), ps(1), top(1), vmstat(8)
Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Matt Mackall. Free use of this software is
granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
or later.
smem was written by Matt Mackall.
This page is part of the smem (Report memory usage with shared memory
divided proportionally) project. Information about the project can
be found at ⟨https://www.selenic.com/smem/⟩. If you have a bug
report for this manual page, send it to smem@selenic.com. This page
was obtained from the project's upstream Mercurial repository
⟨https://selenic.com/repo/smem⟩ on 2020-07-14. (At that time, the
date of the most recent commit that was found in the repository was
2015-05-15.) If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML
version of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up-to-
date source for the page, or you have corrections or improvements to
the information in this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original
manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org
03/15/2010 SMEM(8)
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