NAME

       smemcap - Capture memory usage data for later processing by smem.

SYNOPSIS

       smemcap

DESCRIPTION

       smemcap captures data on system to be later processed by smem.  It captures all /proc entries required by
       smem and outputs them as an uncompressed .tar file to STDOUT.

       smem can analyze the output using the --source option.  smemcap is small and does not require Python.

OPTIONS

       This program does not accept any options.

EXAMPLE

       smemcap > memorycapture.tar

FILES

       /proc/$pid/cmdline

       /proc/$pid/smaps

       /proc/$pid/stat

       /proc/meminfo

       /proc/version

RESOURCES

       Main Web Site: http://www.selenic.com/smem

       Source code repository: http://selenic.com/repo/smem

       Mailing list: http://selenic.com/mailman/listinfo/smem

SEE ALSO

       smem(8), free(1), pmap(1), proc(5), ps(1), top(1), vmstat(8)

COPYING

       Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Matt Mackall.  Free use of this software is granted under the terms  of  the  GNU
       General Public License version 2 or later.

AUTHOR

       smem was written by Matt Mackall.

                                                   17/06/2013                                         SMEMCAP(8)