.TH SMEMCAP 8 "17/06/2013" "" ""

.SH NAME
smemcap \- Capture memory usage data for later processing by smem.

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B smemcap

.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBsmemcap\fP captures data on system to be later processed by \fBsmem\fP.
It captures all /proc entries required by \fBsmem\fP and outputs them as an
uncompressed .tar file to STDOUT.

\fBsmem\fP can analyze the output using the \fB\-\-source\fP option.
\fBsmemcap\fP is small and does not require Python.

.SH OPTIONS

This program does not accept any options.

.SH EXAMPLE

.br
smemcap > memorycapture.tar

.SH FILES
.I /proc/$pid/cmdline
.PP
.I /proc/$pid/smaps
.PP
.I /proc/$pid/stat
.PP
.I /proc/meminfo
.PP
.I /proc/version

.SH RESOURCES
Main Web Site: http://www.selenic.com/smem

Source code repository: http://selenic.com/repo/smem

Mailing list: http://selenic.com/mailman/listinfo/smem

.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR smem (8),
.BR free (1),
.BR pmap (1),
.BR proc (5),
.BR ps (1),
.BR top (1),
.BR vmstat (8)

.SH COPYING
Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Matt Mackall.  Free use of this software
is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License
version 2 or later.

.SH AUTHOR
\fBsmem\fP was written by Matt Mackall.