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Re: [PLUG] Measuring the memory usage of a process
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* Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> [2004-01-29 10:54:29 -0500]:
> 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?
Sorry, I don't know. Read the source? ;)
> > The present selection was mostly inspired by the data
> > provided by 4.2 or 4.3BSD."
Maybe they're just not there.
A couple bog-standard Linux boxes give the same results here,
so I don't think you've misconfigured anything (if that's what
you're after).
Regards,
--
Mark M. Hoffman
mhoffman@lightlink.com
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