On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:22:43PM +0200, Raz wrote: > i tend to calculate a process' memory consumption in deltas, meaning, > how memory it consumes in addition to the shared sections. So i > usually take a look at the write-able > and private consumption as reported by pmap. ( pmap <pid> ). > Please note, there are numerous discussions of how to estimate > system/process memory consumption. Consider for example an in-kernel > inode, it is not counted in the process address space even though it > serves "the process", what about in-flight bio, skbuff ? > > > These problem are very common in the embedded world, we fear of being > "oomed" :)
In addition, I also check free memory before running the app, after starting, several times, etc. -- Didi _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il