How obtain memory used for an aplicattion

[miquelmo]

I want to make a script, to register memory used by an application, and take a percentatge with total memory of the system.

Anybody knows how to do it?
Thanks in advance.

 

[grega]

You can download a unix command called top which should do just that!. I'm not sure where you get it ... try

http://www.gnu.org

for starters.

Greg.

 

[mikeclark]

You can get top from

http://www.sunfreeware.com