memory leakage

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 10 February 2010 09:11:01 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> No need to parse anything. There is an applet (which you found "useless"
> some years ago) which makes this sort of monitoring easy:
>
> # nmeter '%t %c mem %m free %[mf] processes %[pn]'
> 16:10:05 UU........ mem 526m free 1.4g processes  276
> 16:10:06 U......... mem 526m free 1.4g processes  276
> 16:10:07 .......... mem 526m free 1.4g processes  276
> ...

This functionality is built into the stock version of top, but nobody ever 
bothered to make a UI to access it from the command line in busybox's version.  
Instead, busybox has a utility that isn't in stock Linux distros, which 
duplicates functionality from top but which requires learning a new printf-
like syntax to make it work.

Not my first choice of a design approach, no.  Still, as long as it's already 
there that guy might find it useful...

Rob
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Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds