Track Memory Usage of a Process

Image that you want to track the memory usage of dotnet, use the watch command with ps to get an overview of the memory usage:

watch -n 0.5 'ps aux | grep -E \(^USER\|dotnet\) | grep -v grep'

Let’s show RSS in MB`s. Create a script and invoke it as `watch -n 0.4 ‘bash script.sh’ (so that don’t have to handle escaping of the quotes when working with awk).

ps -ao %mem,rss,command | grep $1 | grep -v grep | awk '{$2=int($2/(1024))"MB";}{ print; }'

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