TIP 120 - How much memory my Linux process is using


Just came across some notes regarding Linux memory and I thought to share the below tip on how to find out memory utilization of processes on Linux.

ps aux | grep -i <Fill with name of process>

Result:
  PID --> Process ID
  VSZ --> Total memory is used by the process
  RSS --> Total physical memory is used by the process
  MEM%--> Percentage of memory usage relative to overall memory

cat /proc/<Process ID>/status

Result:
   More specific process allocation on various memory subarea