sudo cat /proc/1/smaps | grep '^Pss:' | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f2 | paste -sd+
sudo cat /proc/1/smaps
: print the content of smaps
of process 1. Running it with sudo
, because regular users don't have access to such level of process memory accounting details.| grep '^Pss:'
: filter the output, keeping only lines that start with "Pss:"| tr -s ' '
: squeeze the output, by replacing repeated spaces with a single space| cut -d' ' -f2
: extract the second field from the output, using space as the delimiter| paste -sd+
: paste all the lines together, delimited by "+"Replace 1
with the PID of a command for which you want to see the Proportional Set Size value.
See more information about Linux memory accounting at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/proc.html
Only works in Linux.