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Useful snippet to calculate total memory used by a process
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psmem.sh
#!/bin/sh
# psmem.sh
# http://abdussamad.com/archives/488-Memory-usage-of-a-process-under-Linux.html
ps -C $1 -O rss | gawk '{ count ++; sum += $2 }; END {count --; print "Number of processes =",count; print "Memory usage per process =",sum/1024/count, "MB"; print "Total memory usage =", sum/1024, "MB" ;};'
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