Activity Monitor lets me see how much memory is allocated as "wired", but I can't find a way to break the allocation down by applications or other memory consumers.
Is there a tool out there that lets me get this information?
I found a webpage which has this definition for wired memory:
If you want to know more about how applications and frameworks are using memory on your system, try
Here is a short example of the output:
See the allmemory man page (with the command
PrivateRes: the number of pages resident in physical memory, not shared with other processes
Copied/Dirty: the number of resident pages that were copied or are dirty (non-exclusive)
Swapped: the number of pages that were in memory but have been swapped to disk.
Shared: the number of shared pages