How to find the memory consumption of a particular process in linux for every 5 seconds

Question

I just want to know how to find the memory consumption of a particular process for particular time(say 5 seconds)

I am new to linux. So, detailed steps of doing that wil

Answer 1

use watch to periodically execute your script. here is an example:

watch 'cat /proc/status' --interval=5

watch 'ps aux' --interval=5