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    Why not getting the info directly from /proc/meminfo? Commented Jan 27, 2022 at 7:52
  • Regarding the * sign, could you please paste here a full line where you see it, without grep and awk? Since I've never seen it in top, I'm curious to see an example. You can just copy to the paste the entire Summary area of top where you see *, including the Cpu and the Swap lines. Commented Jan 27, 2022 at 13:13
  • @StéphaneChazelas: I need it for a particular pid. Commented Feb 3, 2022 at 5:12