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Total RAM used by a program with `ps`? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Measuring RAM usage of a program I am trying to use ps to benchmark a program, I'm just not sure which flags to use. I would like to get the amount of RAM the program ...
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Among “ps” command output fields, %CPU isn't the actual CPU usage of the process?

For example, one of the output fields of this BSD style command, ps aux, is "%CPU". The alternative command, ps -efl outputs the "C" (or CP) field. As per the ps man page: %CPU is the cpu ...
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What's the best way to determine the working directory for UNIX process using 'ps'?

I am running a Ruby command line script (rufus.sh)which ultimately calls Thread.new, which spawns a UNIX process as shown below. I run this script for more than 1 directory as the output of the ps ...
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A more readable ps

Are there any tools that improve the readability of ps in the same spirit as ack for grep? This would be especially on OS X where ps does not even have options such as --sort user. So far the nicest ...