Administrator Guide

Usage
Information
show
processes
memory
output Field
Description
Total: Total system memory available
MaxUsed: Total maximum memory used ever (history indicated with time stamp)
CurrentUsed: Total memory currently in use
CurrentFree: Total system memory available
SharedUsed: Total used shared memory
SharedFree: Total free shared memory
PID Process ID
Process Process Name
ResSize Actual resident size of the process in memory
Size Process test, stack, and data size
Allocs Total dynamic memory allocated
Frees Total dynamic memory freed
Max Maximum dynamic memory allocated
Current Current dynamic memory in use
The output for the show process memory command displays the memory usage statistics running
on CP part (sysd) of the system. The sysd is an aggregate task that handles all the tasks running on
S-Series’ CP.
For the S-Series, the output of the show memory command and this command differ based on which
Dell OS processes are counted.
● In the show memory output, the memory size is equal to the size of the application processes.
● In the output of this command, the memory size is equal to the size of the application processes plus
the size of the system processes.
Example
DellEMC# show processes memory stack-unit 1
Total: 268435456, MaxUsed: 2420244, CurrentUsed: 2420244, CurrentFree:
266015212
TaskName TotalAllocated TotalFreed MaxHeld CurrentHolding
tme 435406 397536 54434 37870
ipc 16652 0 16652 16652
timerMgr 33304 0 33304 33304
sysAdmTsk 33216 0 33216 33216
tFib4 1943960 0 1943960 1943960
aclAgent 90770 16564 74206 74206
ifagt_1 21318 16564 21318 4754
dsagt 6504 0 6504 6504
MacAgent 269778 0 269778 269778
DellEMC#
Example
(management-
unit)
DellEMC# show processes management-unit
Total : 151937024, MaxUsed : 111800320 [2/25/2008 4:18:53]
CurrentUsed: 98848768, CurrentFree: 53088256
SharedUsed : 13007848, SharedFree : 7963696
PID Process ResSize Size Allocs Frees Max Current
337 KernLrnAgMv 117927936 0 0 0 0 0
331 vrrp 5189632 249856 50572 0 50572 50572
323 frrp 5206016 241664 369238 0 369238 369238
322 xstp 7430144 2928640 38328 0 38328 38328
321 pim 5267456 823296 62168 0 62168 62168
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