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+# MonitorRam
+A simple program that monitors real memory usage of processes.
+For example, if you have multiple processes, like numerous game servers, that all begin with the same prefix, you can type that prefix as a command-line argument.
+The program will monitor up to 30 different processes.
+In my case, I have a few game servers that all share "iw5" as the name prefix.
+I would type `./prog iw5` to monitor the actual memory usage of all my game servers.
+In my case, each process should not exceed more than 1 GiB of real memory.
+If that's the case, a memory leak has occurred, and this program will send a request to terminate that process gracefully (SIGTERM).
+Max memory usage is defined in monitor.c
+
+## How to?
+
+Compile from source using the provided makefile
+./prog <NAME OF PROGRAM>