Show cumulatve memory usage by process name

[jarun]

Would it be possible to show the cumulative memory usage by process name, e.g., for opera or chrome where multiple processes are spawned?

Currently it's possible to use -w along with the full (and cumulative) list of all processes. It would be great if this can be done for a single process by name.

[pixelb]

ps_mem is designed to support operations like this using existing programs.
For example:

watch -n1 'sudo ./ps_mem.py -p $(pgrep -d, chrome)'

[jarun]

True but in every iteration it tracks all processes in the system when in this case it's enough to track a single process. That's the reason I opened the issue.

[moneeb777]

Hey, I could possibly work on incorporating this in the code. It would eliminate the need for using 'watch' for this task. @pixelb

[jarun]

That would be great!

[moneeb777]

Please check PR#36 in this regard.