Initially I'm interested in system wide memory usage (free, wired,active, inactive) but following on I might like numbers for just my process. If hacking through Darwin is the only way to do this than never mind but with all of the programs out there that include these numbers there must be a better way to find out how it's done.
On Aug 12, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2012, at 3:21 PM, Charlie Dickman <3tothe...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> How do I get system memory usage numbers within my app? > > What kind of memory usage numbers? There are a lot of different ones — take a > look at the man page for 'top', or at all the different views in Activity > Monitor. And do you want them for all processes or just your own? > > (The general answer is to go look up the source to 'top' in the Darwin open > source repo and see how it does it. It's using some low-level system calls > that I don't believe are documented otherwise.) > > —Jens Charlie Dickman 3tothe...@comcast.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
