====== Find Memory Usage ====== ===== System memory used and free ===== Total Used and Free Memory in MBytes (in that order) free -m|grep "buffers/cache"|cut -d":" -f2 ===== Memory by Process ===== Raw ps -e -orss=,args= | sort -b -k1,1n | pr -TW$COLUMNS Human readable ps -e -orss=,args= | sort -b -k1,1n | awk '{ split( "KB MB GB" , v ); s=1; while( $1>1024 ){ $1/=1024; s++ } print int($1) " " v[s] " " $2 }' ===== Memory by Process - Grouped together ===== Raw ps -e -orss=,args= | awk '{arr[$2]+=$1} END {for (i in arr) {print arr[i],i}}' | sort -b -k1,1n Human readable ps -e -orss=,args= | awk '{arr[$2]+=$1} END {for (i in arr) {print arr[i],i}}' | sort -b -k1,1n | awk '{ split( "KB MB GB" , v ); s=1; while( $1>1024 ){ $1/=1024; s++ } print int($1) " " v[s] " " $2 }' ===== Total RSS Memory ===== ps -e -orss= | awk '{ sum += $1 } END { print sum }' Human redable ps -e -orss= | awk '{ sum += $1 } END { print sum }' | awk '{ split( "KB MB GB" , v ); s=1; while( $1>1024 ){ $1/=1024; s++ } print int($1) " " v[s] " " $2 }' ===== Total Memory ===== smem -w -t -k ===== Related ===== Use ''lshw'' - for listing hardware including physical memory slots