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 > > ages on other computer systems that could tell how much memory had > > been allocated but not freed so far? Or some reasonable surrogate? > > "dark ages" ?
In the 70's and 80's when just about every computer system had a subtly different C library. > > Do you mean the 'c' functions provided by including <malloc.h> ? > 'man mallinfo' for an example doing exactly what you appear to be asking here. This seems to be exactly what I wanted. Thank you. Looks like you understood me. -- hendrik > > > > > Yes,I know there are administrative tools that let me survail all the > > processes in the system. But isn't there something the program can do > > for itself without that level of agony? > > > > -- hendrik > > what 'level of agony' are you referring to ? > > One person may find a 'thing' difficult whilst another person > with a different skillset may find the same 'thing' trivially easy. I meant the overhead in using things like the ps shell command and extracting the information I wanted. Doing an exec seems like overkill for what I wanted. -- hendrik > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
