From: "Christ, Bryan" <bryan.christ@hp.com>
To: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
Cc: Prasanta Sadhukhan <Prasanta.Sadhukhan@Sun.COM>,
Dan Gary <funkychunkymunky@gmail.com>,
linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: max heap usage of a Linux process
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:19:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163517597.23620.7.camel@tuxdev.americas.hpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17753.41267.125633.668756@cerise.gclements.plus.com>
If you don't feel like reading proc or want to make things more
portable, use libgtop.
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 10:57 +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Prasanta Sadhukhan wrote:
>
> > Actually, I have the process-pid(s) and I want to find out
> > programmatically, what's the max heap size that had been consumed by
> > that process at any given moment(based on user command) from another
> > process.
>
> Then you need to read the files in /proc/<pid>/*. There isn't a system
> call to get resource usage for another process.
>
> Note that you won't be able to determine how much of the allocated
> heap is free or used; that information is internal to the process, and
> isn't visible externally.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-14 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-13 13:31 max heap usage of a Linux process Prasanta Sadhukhan
2006-11-13 14:09 ` Markus Rechberger
2006-11-13 15:39 ` Dan Gary
2006-11-13 15:59 ` Markus Rechberger
2006-11-13 16:12 ` Christ, Bryan
2006-11-14 6:26 ` Prasanta Sadhukhan
2006-11-14 10:57 ` Glynn Clements
2006-11-14 11:30 ` Prasanta Sadhukhan
2006-11-14 14:36 ` Glynn Clements
2006-11-14 11:39 ` Al Boldi
2006-11-14 15:19 ` Christ, Bryan [this message]
2006-11-13 15:30 ` Christ, Bryan
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