David Hancock

Oct 10

Helpful aliases for memory usage

These are helpful for those using virtual servers with memory limits. Each one needs to be on one line.

alias memtotal="ps -u $LOGNAME h -o rss | (tr '\n' +; echo 0) | bc"

alias memtotal='ps -u $LOGNAME h -o rss | (tr '\n' +; echo 0) | bc'

alias memhttpd="ps -u $LOGNAME -o pid,rss,command | grep httpd | grep -v grep | awk 'BEGIN {sum=0} {sum=sum+\$2} END {printf(\"%f MB\n\",sum/1024)}'"

Found on: http://blog.webfaction.com/tips-to-keep-your-django-mod-python-memory-usage-down