I guess if you want to develop a program to monitor the memory usage, you have firstly check the /proc directory to figure out if this provides the information you need.
The link below explain what is /proc and how to access the many entries in /proc from the user application: http://docs.linux.cz/programming/other/ALP/advanced-linux-programming.pdf If you do not find any information you need, so you have to develop your own entry in /proc in order to provide the information required by your program. This step require you to program at kernel space. BR, Mauricio Lin. On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:37:56 +0100, Silvan Villiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone give me a link to a guide which introduces into memory > management? > > I need to understand expressions like "rss", "sz", "shared memory", > "memory leak", "core image of a process", "data section", "kernel > stack", "virtual size". > > I've googled a lot and have red the man page of ps. But it seems as most > of the information out there expects me to know the basic stuff above. I > only found this picture: > http://www.phptr.com/content/images/chap3_0131429647/elementLinks/03fig01.jpg > and an explanation to it, so you can expect me to understand these > things, but nothing more. > My goal is to write a script to monitor the memory-usage of a program > and to detect memory-leaks using the ps-command. How would you detect > memory leaks with it? > > Greetings... Silvan > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
