Process Memory Monitor

A Python application for monitoring total memory usage of commands matching specified pattern. It displays the information either on Tkinter GUI if DISPLAY is availabe or on stdout if it's launched from a text-only termainl.

Installation

OS

proc-mem-monitor has been tested on CentOS 7.8 and Ubuntu 16.04.

Python

This program requires Python 3.6 or newer to run.

Ubuntu 16.04

The default Python on Ubuntu 16.04 is version 3.5. Run the commands below to install Python 3.6

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.6 python3.6-venv python3.6-tk 

Redhat/CentOS 7.8

The default Python on CentOS 7.8 is already version 3.6. You only need to install Python Tkinter.

sudo yum install python36-tkinter

Create and activate a Python3 virtual environment

python3.6 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate

Install xbutil GUI as a regular user

pip install proc_mem_monitor

Install xbutil GUI as a contributor

Install required Python packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

Install proc-mem-monitor in development Mode

python setup.py develop

Run Process Memory Monitor

Run the command below from the Python virtual environment created above proc_mem_monitor

Snapshots

Process Memory Monitor on Tkinter GUI

Publish xbutil_gui to PyPI

./scripts/publish-pypi.sh

The following modules may need to be upgraded or installed:

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install twine