How can I measure the actual memory usage of an application or process?

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How do you measure the memory usage of an application or process in Linux?

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• Last but not least use htop.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install htop

• Run htop using below command.

$ htop

• Note for newcomers: dollar symbol is used to show we are running command on a terminal