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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.
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.
finally something that shows electron apps as one row instead of 40, makes htop actually useful again. the shared memory fix is what sold me
About memhogs on Product Hunt
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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.
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