On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 04:20:31PM +0100, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 01:21:30 -0800, Sam Horrocks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > This module would attempt to tell you how much memory your process
> > is using, so your process could shutdown, restart or take other
> > actions if it is getting too large.
>
> Is there really no module that does this already? Have you looked at
> GTop?
>
> > The interface would be:
>
> > Sys::MemoryUsage->total_vm; # Total virtual memory in use.
> > Sys::MemoryUsage->data_segment; # Data segment size
> > Sys::MemoryUsage->stack_segment; # Stack segment size
> > Sys::MemoryUsage->text_segment; # Text segment size
>
> It has been violent agreement in the modules librarians circles that
> Sys:: is a bad prefix because it tends to become a bit basket. Maybe
> you could live with Unix::? Or Linux::? or BSD::? Or does your module
> really cover all platforms?
Don't forget Proc::* which would suit a module with portable APIs.
Tim.
