Joachim Durchholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What I really want is the amount of
memory my application can allocate and excercise lively without
causing thrashing. On my Linux computer, that amounts more or less to
the installed, physical RAM, minus a bit, so I'll settle for that. :-)
An
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:13:28PM +0100, Ketil Malde wrote:
My aplogies for being unclear! What I really want is the amount of
memory my application can allocate and excercise lively without
causing thrashing. On my Linux computer, that amounts more or less to
the installed, physical RAM,
Hi,
Is it possible to detect memory (i.e. RAM, not virtual memory) size
from inside a Haskell program (so that I can keep my program from
growing too large with consequent thrashing)? And if so, to what
degree of portability?
-kzm
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Glynn Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What do you mean by memory size? How much RAM is installed in the
system? The amount which the process is currently using? The amount
which the OS might be willing to allocate to your process at any given
point in time? Something else?
My aplogies for
Glynn Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
IIRC, getrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA) doesn't mean much on Linux, as it doesn't
include memory which is added using mmap(..., MAP_ANON), which is used
by glibc's malloc(). Also, getrlimit(RLIMIT_RSS) is probably more
relevant for your purposes.
I also got a
Ketil Malde wrote:
What I really want is the amount of
memory my application can allocate and excercise lively without
causing thrashing. On my Linux computer, that amounts more or less to
the installed, physical RAM, minus a bit, so I'll settle for that. :-)
An easier way would be to make this
