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memhogs
See which apps are really eating your RAM
top shows you 40 Chrome processes and zero answers. memhogs is a command-line tool that groups every helper and child process under the app that owns it; so an Electron app with 40 renderers is one row with one honest total, not 40 scattered lines. It resolves real app names (Warp's binary is literally called stable), and it charges shared memory fairly instead of double-counting it the way ps does. macOS and Linux, one brew install.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I built memhogs because every time I wanted to know what was eating my RAM, top and Activity Monitor let me down. You get a wall of "Chrome Helper," "Code Helper," "Browser Helper (Renderer)" and no sense of which app is actually responsible. memhogs fixes four things: - Grouping by process tree, not by name. Helpers roll up into their parent app by walking the process tree. A tsserver your editor spawned counts toward the editor, even though nothing in its path says so. - Real names. It resolves executables to their app bundle (macOS) or systemd unit (Linux), so you see "Warp," not stable. - Honest memory. The default metric doesn't double-count pages shared between processes — the same number Activity Monitor shows. On Electron-heavy machines that's gigabytes of difference. - Sorted by memory, descending. The way you actually wanted top to work. There's a full-screen --watch mode (like top, repaints in place), --json for scripting, filtering, and an Android companion app.
About memhogs on Product Hunt
“See which apps are really eating your RAM”
memhogs was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #129 on the daily leaderboard. top shows you 40 Chrome processes and zero answers. memhogs is a command-line tool that groups every helper and child process under the app that owns it; so an Electron app with 40 renderers is one row with one honest total, not 40 scattered lines. It resolves real app names (Warp's binary is literally called stable), and it charges shared memory fairly instead of double-counting it the way ps does. macOS and Linux, one brew install.
On the analytics side, memhogs competes within Linux, Open Source and GitHub — topics that collectively have 117.7k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how memhogs performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted memhogs?
memhogs was hunted by Collins Thomas. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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