and what about "free -m" ?? it gives output like this ~:$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 885 583 302 0 58 319 -/+ buffers/cache: 204 680 Swap: 1906 0 1906
perhaps it may be useful for you : ) On 9/15/05, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 07:20:01PM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > >> Is there anything like "time command args" that will run "command args" > >> and then print out the maximum amount of memory it used? > > > > Normally, /usr/bin/time -v, but apparently since 2.4 kernels a lot of > > information is not available. > > As you say, it doesn't work any more. I tried that with various commands on > two machines (2.6.11 and 2.4.something) and consistently got this: > > Average shared text size (kbytes): 0 > Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0 > Average stack size (kbytes): 0 > Average total size (kbytes): 0 > Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 0 > Average resident set size (kbytes): 0 > > because would be exactly the sort of information I'm looking for. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- roberto debian sarge, kernel 2.6.8