PAGEMON

NAME

pagemon - a tool to monitor memory pages.

SYNOPSIS

pagemon [options]

DESCRIPTION

pagemon is a program that allows one to interactively monitor the memory pages of a process.

OPTIONS

pagemon options are as follow:

-a

enable automatic zoom mode, this will change the zoom level to show the entire page map in the window, up to a maximum zoom level of 999.

-d delay

delay in microseconds between data refreshes, the default is 10,000 microseconds (1/100th of a second).

	-h		show help.
	-p		specify the process id (PID) or name of the process to monitor. If a name is given, then pagemon will monitor the first process that matches the name.
	-r		read pages into memory. This will force all pages in the process to be read into physical memory.

-t ticks

specify ticks between dirty page checks. The default is 60 ticks; the larger the value the longer time between dirty page checks.

-v

enable VM information view. This is equivalent to pressing the ’v’ or ’V’ key when running pagemon.

-z zoom

specify the default zoom level on page view, the default is 1 (that is 1-to-1 view of pages). Higher values increase the zoom level so more pages are represented in the map view.

KEYS

EXAMPLES

Monitor the thunderbird process:

sudo pagemon -p thunderbird

Monitor process 1 (init), zoom scale of 4:

sudo pagemon -p 1 -z 4

AUTHOR

pagemon was written by Colin King <colin.i.king@gmail.com> with contributions from Dr. David Alan Gilbert.

This manual page was written by Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>, for the Ubuntu project (but may be used by others).

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2016-2021 Canonical Ltd. Copyright © 2021-2022 Colin Ian King
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.