SYD-MEM(1) General Commands Manual SYD-MEM(1)

syd-mem - Calculate the memory usage of the given process or the parent process

syd-mem [-sHV] [pid]

The syd-mem utility calculates the memory usage of the given process or the parent process. Source of information is the per-process file proc_pid_smaps_rollup(5) or proc_pid_smaps(5) when -s option is given.

-H Print human-formatted size
-V Print virtual memory size
-s Use proc_pid_smaps(5) rather than the rollup file.
This method is inefficient and is provided for benchmarking.

syd(1), syd(2), syd(5), proc(5), proc_pid_smaps(5), proc_pid_smaps_rollup(5)

syd homepage: https://sydbox.exherbo.org/

Maintained by Ali Polatel. Up-to-date sources can be found at https://gitlab.exherbo.org/sydbox/sydbox.git and bugs/patches can be submitted to https://gitlab.exherbo.org/groups/sydbox/-/issues. Discuss in #sydbox on Libera Chat or in #sydbox:mailstation.de on Matrix.

2025-11-14