Re: [PLUG] Measuring the memory usage of a process

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:37:41AM -0500, Mark M. Hoffman wrote:
> The man page says:
> 
> 	"Not all resources are measured by all versions of Unix,
> 	so some of  the values  might  be  reported  as zero.  
> 	The present selection was mostly inspired by the data
> 	provided by 4.2 or 4.3BSD."
> 
> > better utility I could be using to get this information?
> 
> Is it a C program?  Try valgrind (if it's not too slow)...
> 
> http://valgrind.kde.org/
> 
> Or, you could also try to read it out of /proc/<pid>/status.

Yes, I read that in the man page as well.  But it seems to me that
Linux *is* reporting memory usage.  The fields are set in
/proc/<pid>/status, and they show up when I run top(1).  So why can't
time(1) see them?

Walt

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