[dtrace-discuss] About memory usage by a specific process

Jim Mauro James.Mauro at Sun.COM
Fri Jul 11 14:28:21 PDT 2008


prstat -s rss

The RSS column is the resident set size, or roughly the amount of memory
being used be the process. The "-s rss" tells prstat to sort based on 
rss size.

HTH,
/jim


YOUNSI RIADH wrote:
>
> *Hi *
>
> *Using vmstat I noticed that free memory is getting lower during a 
> certain period of time (2 or 3 days) then that memory is recovered. Is 
> there a**_ dtrace script_** that would help to identify the process 
> that uses that** memory?** *
>
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> **
>
> *Thanks*
>
> ***Riadh YOUNSI*
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