How to read memory usage in htop?

Solution 1:

Hide user threads (shift + H) and close the process tree view (F5), then you can sort out the process of your interest by PID and read the RES column (sort by MEM% by pressing shift + M, or F3 to search in cmd line)

Solution 2:

Memory is a hard thing, you cannot calculate used physical memory by just running ps/htop/top. Memory can be shared between processes.

I recommend you to check usage with this script:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py