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smem: Print memory usage for current processes for a specified user.

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$ smem --userfilter ${username}

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The command "smem --userfilter ${username}" is used to filter and display memory usage statistics for a specific user on a Linux system.

Here is a breakdown of each component of the command:

"smem": This is the name of the command-line tool used to provide memory usage information on Linux systems. It stands for "System Memory" and provides detailed reports about memory usage by various processes.
"--userfilter": This is an option or flag used with the "smem" command to filter the output based on a specific user. By using this option, you can specify a user whose memory usage statistics you want to view.
"${username}": This is a placeholder that represents the actual username or user account that you want to filter the memory usage for. You need to replace "${username}" with the desired username before executing the command. For example, if you want to filter memory usage for the user "john", you would replace "${username}" with "john".

When executed, this command will display memory usage statistics for the specified user, including information such as the amount of memory used by each process associated with that user, the resident (non-swapped) memory, shared memory, etc.

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.

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