Display per-process memory usage

Similar to the show processes cpu sorted command, the show processes memory sorted printout displays the top memory consumers (see example below).
router#show processes memory sorted

Total: 13734272, Used: 6372068, Free: 7362204

PID TTY Allocated Freed Holding Getbufs Retbufs Process

0 0 135340 1864 4734916 0 0 *Init*

55 0 242388 188 249076 0 0 URL filter proc

69 0 317996 143308 182184 0 0 IPSEC key engine

62 2 277048 124752 165172 0 0 Virtual Exec

68 0 762828 657056 109896 0 0 Crypto IKMP

80 0 74556 1100 73772 0 0 CEF process

91 0 25704 188 28776 0 0 NTP

67 0 3116 51368 27904 0 0 Crypto ACL

83 0 184 0 25060 0 0 traffic_shape

30 0 89900 0 24700 0 0 IP Input

46 0 32248 1776 23596 0 0 DHCPD Receive

35 0 10236 540 16572 0 0 PPPOE discovery

48 0 95344 51488 14724 0 0 HTTP CORE
Usually the top entry is the *Init* process, which allocates all shared buffers, but routing processes could also exhibit significant memory utilization in large networks.

3 comments:

  1. cool stuff...for me i onyl use show mem most of the time and the output is really bad. I am happy i learn this new command of show processes memory sorted.

    hackathology
  2. Theres a better way to see the top processes that are using the most memory usage, here's the command:

    show processes memory sorted allocated

    this shows what process allocated the most memory.

    cheers
  3. # to show current memory usage #
    show processes memory sorted holding
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