Total memory usage

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siffemoz
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Total memory usage

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Anyone know of a way to see the total amount of working memory (Task manager processes, not cache) FF uses without having to use a calculator? I don't find about:memory useful.
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Reflective
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Re: Total memory usage

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Task manager ---> click Performance tab ---> click Open Resource Monitor link at the bottom and then in the next menu click the Memory tab.
siffemoz
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Re: Total memory usage

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Thanks Reflective, but that also shows me separate processes like in Task manager.
Ed1
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Re: Total memory usage

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Re: Total memory usage

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Heh.

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E:\RUBEN>TASKLIST /FI "imagename eq firefox.exe"  && echo.  && tasklist /fi "imagename eq firefox.exe" | sed s/,//g | gawk "{ sum += $5 } END { print sum }"

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Image Name                     PID Session Name        Session#    Mem Usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ============
firefox.exe                   6328 Console                    2     42,460 K
firefox.exe                   4776 Console                    2    846,128 K
firefox.exe                   2792 Console                    2      9,464 K
firefox.exe                   2512 Console                    2  2,126,164 K
firefox.exe                   4468 Console                    2    237,856 K

3262072
(Now that is listing the 'Working Set' bytes. 'Private Bytes' could be, even substantially, different, in particular for the largest [2512] thread, 6,984,510 K in my case.)
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siffemoz
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Re: Total memory usage

Post by siffemoz »

Thanks for the reply, Ed1. Got it working running Powershell command from a batch file:

Powershell file (totalff.ps1):
$p = (Get-Process Firefox -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Measure-Object -Sum WorkingSet).Sum / 1024
Write-Host "Total Firefox = "$p" K"

Batch file (totalff.bat):
@echo off
powershell -executionpolicy bypass "& "C:\execs\totalff"
pause
siffemoz
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Re: Total memory usage

Post by siffemoz »

Thanks for the reply, therube. Had to go get sed and gawk for Win, now runs from batch file:

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin"
TASKLIST /FI "imagename eq firefox.exe" && echo. && tasklist /fi "imagename eq firefox.exe" | sed s/,//g | gawk "{ sum += $5 } END { print sum }"
pause
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