On 22/08/2020 16:03, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 10:47:53AM +0100, g4sra via Dng wrote:
>> Your query does not make sense to me.
>>
>> On 21/08/2020 21:23, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>> Is there a way for process to ask about its own memory usage?
>>>
>>> Something perhaps like the C f
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 10:47:53AM +0100, g4sra via Dng wrote:
> Your query does not make sense to me.
>
> On 21/08/2020 21:23, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > Is there a way for process to ask about its own memory usage?
> >
> > Something perhaps like the C functions that were available in the dark
>
> On Friday 21 August 2020 at 22:23:16, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > Is there a way for process to ask about its own memory usage?
>
> Assuming the process knows its own PD, try the 24th value in /proc/PID/stat
... or just /proc/self/stat
regards
marc
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Your query does not make sense to me.
On 21/08/2020 21:23, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Is there a way for process to ask about its own memory usage?
>
> Something perhaps like the C functions that were available in the dark
> ages on other computer systems that could tell how much memory had
> been
I use the following
>
> watch -n 30 "ps --sort=-rss -eo pmem,rss,vsz,comm|grep ${software} >>
> ${OUTPUT}"
Where ${software} is a string and ${OUTPUT} is a file. I use the data
stored in the file to plot graphs.
Otherwise, Andy's correct: /proc/${pid}/stat will contain everything you
need.
On
On Friday 21 August 2020 at 22:23:16, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Is there a way for process to ask about its own memory usage?
Assuming the process knows its own PD, try the 24th value in /proc/PID/stat
See man proc for details.
Antony.
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I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a sof
Is there a way for process to ask about its own memory usage?
Something perhaps like the C functions that were available in the dark
ages on other computer systems that could tell how much memory had
been allocated but not freed so far? Or some reasonable surrogate?
Yes,I know there are admin
