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Smem – Reports Memory Consumption Per-Process and Per-User Basis in Linux

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Ravi Saive
Jun 5, 2016

Smem is a command-line memory reporting tool thats gives a user diverse reports on memory usage on a Linux system. There is one unique thing about smem, unlike other traditional memory reporting tools, it reports PSS (Proportional Set Size), a more meaningful representation of memory usage by applications and libraries in a virtual memory setup.
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