Re: max heap usage of a Linux process

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Prasanta Sadhukhan wrote:

> Actually, I have the process-pid(s) and I want to find out 
> programmatically, what's the max heap size that had been consumed by 
> that process at any given moment(based on user command) from another 
> process.

Then you need to read the files in /proc/<pid>/*. There isn't a system
call to get resource usage for another process.

Note that you won't be able to determine how much of the allocated
heap is free or used; that information is internal to the process, and
isn't visible externally.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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