Linux Memory Statistics
What does Used memory in Linux actually mean and how this concept has changed over the years.
Category: procps
Percent CPU for processes
The ps program gives a snapshot of the processes running on your Unix-like system. On most Linux installations, this will be the ps program from the procps project. What does the %CPU field mean in the output of ps?
procps-ng 3.3.16
procps-ng version 3.3.16 was released today. Besides some documentation and library updates, there were a few incremental changes. Zombie Hunting with pgrep […]
The sudo tty bug and procps
There have been recent reports of a security bug in sudo (CVE-2017-1000367) where you can fool sudo into thinking what controlling terminal […]
procps 3.3.12
The procps developers are happy to announce that version 3.3.12 of procps was released today. This version has a mixture of bug […]
Displaying Linux Memory
Memory management is hard, but RAM management may be even harder. Most people know the vague overall concept of how memory usage […]
pidof lost a shell
pidof is a program that reports the PID of a process that has the given command line. It has an option x […]
ps standards and locales
I looked at two interesting issues today around the ps program in the procps project. One had a solution and the other […]
procps 3.3.11
I have updated NEWS, bumped the API and tagged in git; procps version 3.3.11 is now released! This release we have fixed many […]
Be careful with errno
I’m getting close to releasing version 3.3.11 of procps. When it gets near that time, I generally browse again the Debian Bug […]