I think GTop will work - I'll try that. Unfortunately it's very difficult
to find because it's up at the root (why?), and its readme doesn't contain
words like "memory" or "process" so it didn't show up in a search.
Wouldn't Sys::GTop would be preferable to a root-level GTop. At least
Sys would sort-of categorize at as interfacing to the operating system.
Putting in the root doesn't categorize it at all.
Sam
> >>>>> 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?
>
> > If any of the values are unknown that method would return undef. On some
> > OSes, all the methods might return undef. Total_vm might either sum up
> > all the known values, or might get the total value directly from the OS.
> > It's possible total_vm may be more than the sum of the parts, depending
> > on how the value is obtained.
>
> > Currently the only way I know to get a memory usage figure is to install
> > mod_perl and then call &$Apache::SizeLimit::HOW_BIG_IS_IT(). The problems
> > with this are:
>
> > - This only retrieves one value
>
> > - Finding out the amount of memory in use shouldn't require installing
> > mod_perl.
>
> > - The HOW_BIG_IS_IT routine is not a documented interface for the
> > Apache::SizeLimit module.
>
> Please keep us informed what you find out and what you decide.
>
> Regards,
> --
> andreas
