On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 08:27 -0400, Kent Johnson wrote: > How can I find out how much memory is used by a cron job? > > Background: > I manage an account at WebFaction. It has a memory limit. I have a cron > job that runs every night, it generally is not a problem, but last night > it chewed up a ton of memory and triggered a limit alarm at WF. > > I don't know how their alarms work so I don't know if this was an > isolated event or if it is using a lot of memory every night and I just > got caught last night. I would like to find out. Is there some way I can > wrap the cron job to log the memory used by the process?
One simple way 'ps aux | grep myjob' If you loop on this and redirect the output to a file you can watch your program grow. There is also a memstat utility that may or may not be available on the system you are using. -Alex > > I think the server is running RHEL, don't know which version. > > Thanks, > Kent > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
