smemcap(8)

smemcap8

Capture memory usage data for later processing by smem.

Usage

smemcap

Overview

smemcap captures data on system to be later processed by smem. It captures all /proc entries required by smem and outputs them as an uncompressed .tar file to STDOUT.

smem can analyze the output using the --source option. smemcap is small and does not require Python.

Options

This program does not accept any options.

Examples

smemcap > memorycapture.tar

Files

/proc/$pid/cmdline

/proc/$pid/smaps

/proc/$pid/stat

/proc/meminfo

/proc/version

Resources

Main Web Site: http://www.selenic.com/smem

Source code repository: http://selenic.com/repo/smem

Mailing list: http://selenic.com/mailman/listinfo/smem

Copying

Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Matt Mackall. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.

Releases

Unchanged in 6 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie).

  1. 8–13

Author

smem was written by Matt Mackall.

From smemcap 1.5-3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.