How To Measure the Working Set Size on Linux
Brendan Gregg
JANUARY 17, 2018
OSes usually show you virtual memory and resident memory, shown as the "VIRT" and "RES" columns in top. Here is a MySQL database server (mysqld), PID 423, and measuring its working set size for 0.1 That's the working set size. It is used for capacity planning and scalability analysis. seconds (100 milliseconds): #./wss.pl
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