This roundup focuses on memory tools that help with forensics. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here.
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Tag: memory
Volshell – CLI tool for working with memory
Volshell is a utility to access the volatility framework interactively with a specific memory image.
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pypykatz – Python implementation of Mimikatz
pypykatz is a cross-platform implementation of Mimikatz written in Python.
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MemProcFS – view physical memory as files in a virtual file system
MemProcFS is an easy and convenient way of viewing physical memory as files in a virtual file system.
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EVTXtract – recovers and reconstructs fragments of EVTX log files
EVTXtract recovers and reconstructs fragments of EVTX log files from raw binary data, including unallocated space and memory images.
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AVML – Acquire Volatile Memory for Linux
AVML is an X86_64 userland volatile memory acquisition tool written in Rust, intended to be deployed as a static binary.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Process Memory Tools
In this roundup we focus on useful tools that help you work out the amount of memory used by programs.
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process-map – visualize the virtual memory of a process
process map is tool to visualize the virtual memory of a process. Thread activity is drawn as small dots jumping around on the map.
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mstat – measure memory usage of a program over time
mstat uses the cgroups kernel API (also used by container infrastructure like Docker) to record memory usage of a set of processes over time.
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process-mem – display memory used by processes
process-mem is a command-line tool to display process(es) memory usage. The utility shows RSS< VNS, SHR, slib, and more.
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alram – alarm for RAM
Alram is an alarm for RAM. It’s designed to help when available memory is below threshold, with optional task killer.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Memory Usage – Week 14
The Raspberry Pi 4 has 3 models with 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB of RAM. We explore memory usage of Chromium, Mathematica, and other applications.
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Essential System Tools: ps_mem – accurately report memory usage of programs
This is the first in a series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series will examine both graphical and text based open source utilities. The first tool under the spotlight is ps_mem, a small utility that reliably reports how much memory is consumed by an application.
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