On 12/07/2010, at 12:40, dhruva wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:49 PM, dhruva <dhruv...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> I would like to know the memory usage (total virtual memory) inside a >> process and make decisions accordingly. >> To be more specific, I am using BerkeleyDB backed set or std::set (C++ >> STL) depending on my current memory usage >> as my process will need to run in a resource constrained environment. >> By the way, this is user mode application. >> >> Some things I am considering/tried: >> 1. GNU/Linux has mallinfo and I had my code working based on the >> information I get from the call. > > Could anyone please help and throw some light on this topic (mallinfo) > equivalent. I am stuck and need > resolve this soon. In short, I need to find out the virtual memory > used (mapped to the process's address space) > in a light weight fashion so that I can make some decision based on it.
Can't you use getrusage to find that out? As for system wide stats, I think you could look at sysctl, specifically the vm tree. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
