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NAME

       gmemusage - graphically display memory used by running processes.

SYNOPSIS

       gmemusage [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

       Gmemusage  is  modelled  after  the program of the same name on Silicon
       Graphics’ workstations.  Gmemusage graphically displays the contents of
       memory  on  a  running  system,  broken up by individual processes. The
       display is a stacked bar graph with the height of an area  representing
       the  RSS  size  of  the corresponding process. In addition, the process
       name, number of processes with that name and the  size  (in  kilobytes)
       are shown.

       Processes   which   take  up  less  memory  than  a  (user-specifiable)
       threshhold are merged  into  a  single  area  on  the  graph.  Multiple
       processes with the same name are merged into a single area.

       While running, gmemusage accepts the following keys:

       Q or q
            Exit the program.

       Up Arrow
            Increase the minimum threshhold by 10 kb.

       Down Arrow
            Decrease the minimum threshhold by 10 kb.

       Other keys are (not-so-silently!) ignored.

OPTIONS

       Gmemusage  accepts  the  following  command-line  options  (defaults in
       brackets):

       -name resourcename
            Class name to use for resources (Gmemusage)

       -display display
            X server to contact ($DISPLAY environment variable)

       -geometry geometry
            Initial window geometry (320x400)

       -font font
            Use font font for drawing text (fixed)

       -background color
            Color to use for window background (grey4)

       -update seconds
            Update interval (5 seconds)

       -threshhold kb
            Threshhold below which small processes are merged (400 kb)

       -ncolors #colors
            How many different colors to use (3)

       -color1 color
            Name of first color (red/maroon)

       -color2 color
            Name of second color (green/OliveDrab)

       -color3 color
            Name of third color (blue/SlateBlue)

       -color[4-9] color
            Names of remaining colors (undefined)

       -help
            Print a short help message.

RESOURCES

       Gmemusage understands  the  following  X  resources.  See  the  OPTIONS
       section for details of what they do.

              name (class Name)
              display (class Display)
              geometry (class Geometry)
              font (class Font)
              background (class Background)
              update (class Interval)
              threshhold (class Threshhold)
              ncolors (class NColors)
              color1 (class Color)
              color2 (class Color)
              color3 (class Color)
              color[4-9] (class Color)

BUGS

       See the TODO file which comes with the distribution.

SEE ALSO

       top(1), ps(1), xosview(1).

VERSION

       Gmemusage version 0.2, 1998/01/14

AUTHOR

       Raju Mathur (raju@sgi.com) aka OldMonk.

SITE

       The canonical site for gmemusage is:

              http://reality.sgi.com/raju/software

COPYRIGHT

       Gmemusage  is  copyright  (C)  1997,  1998 by Raju Mathur. See the file
       COPYING in the source directory for copyright information.