PSSt (short for PSS tree) is a simple utility that shows memory usage for every process as well as their children, taking shared memory into account. tmpfs
file systems, unreclaimable SLAB caches, and zram
devices are also reported.
Sample output:
PSS ∑ PSS PID command or mount point
159.0k 12.8G 1 init [3]
5.5M 7.0G 19645 ├ urxvt
1.4M 7.0G 19646 │ └ bash
1.0G 7.0G 19649 │ └ /opt/firefox/firefox-bin --name firefox-bin
860.5M 860.5M 19937 │ ├ /opt/firefox/firefox-bin ...
859.4M 859.4M 19817 │ ├ /opt/firefox/firefox-bin ...
... ... ... │ ├ (...skipped for brevity...)
7.4M 7.4M 20137 │ └ /opt/firefox/firefox-bin ...
1.0G 1.0G tmpfs ├ /dev/shm
... ... ... ├ ...