SYD-MEM(1)

🎀 SYD-MEM 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to syd-mem(1) from the General Commands Manual — section 1, commands, the good stuff ✨ this little icon is literally gonna tell you how much memory a process is eating, no cap 🍓

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✨ NAME ✨

syd-mem — calculates the memory usage of the given process, or of the parent process. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

syd-mem [-sHV] [pid]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the syd-mem utility calculates the memory usage of the given process — or, if you don't hand it one, the parent process 👑 and the source of all this info? two options, bestie:

• the per-process file proc_pid_smaps_rollup(5) — the default glow-up ✨
• or proc_pid_smaps(5) when you pass the -s option 🙈

like, it reads procfs and does the math for you. main character energy fr fr 💜

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -H — print the size all human-formatted and cute, so it's actually readable instead of a giant pile of digits 😭
• -V — print the virtual memory size 🧚
• -s — use proc_pid_smaps(5) rather than the rollup file. just so we're clear: this method is inefficient and is provided for benchmarking ⚠️ like it works, but it's giving "walking uphill both ways" — the rollup file is the efficient one, iykyk 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

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

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

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💖 AUTHORS 💖

Maintained by Ali Polatel 🫶 up-to-date sources can be found at https://gitlab.exherbo.org/sydbox/sydbox.git and on Radicle at rad:z38HCnbmcDegA2BMxuPaPRPMdp6wF. 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 🌸

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bestie reminder: no invented flags, no guessing at behaviour — everything above is exactly what the page says, just with way better vibes 💅

and that's a wrap! this one's stamped 2026-09-01 and it's SYD-MEM(1) all the way down — go check your memory usage, slay 🌟💜