Show /proc memory maps

Total virtual memory size of a process from smaps

cat /proc/<pid>/smaps | awk '/^Size/{sum+=$2} END{print sum/1024" MB"}'
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More linux commands

  • Anonymous huge pages status
    grep -E 'HugePages|AnonHugePages|Transparent' /proc/meminfo

    Check if THP / hugepages are used and configured

  • Disable Transparent Huge Pages
    echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled

    Disable THP at runtime (fix for Redis, MongoDB latency spikes)

  • Show NUMA topology
    numactl --hardware

    NUMA nodes, CPU assignment, and memory distribution

  • TCP tuning: increase backlog
    sysctl -w net.core.somaxconn=65535 net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog=65535

    Increase socket listen backlog for high-connection services

  • TCP tuning: enable BBR
    sysctl -w net.core.default_qdisc=fq net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control=bbr

    Enable Google BBR congestion control for better throughput

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