mstat runs on Linux, taking advantage of the cgroups kernel API (also used by container infrastructure like Docker) to record memory usage of a set of processes over time. Because mstat builds on groups, we automatically track memory usage of any child-processes spawned by the original program.
Additionally, the Memory API we are using not only gives us detailed information about userspace memory usage, but also about kernel memory allocated on behalf of the program. (such as memory used to mange a process’s page tables).
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/bpowers/mstat
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Developer: Bobby Powers
License: ISC License
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