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 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.
Ok, good. > > 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 > And thank you for the explanations. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
