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> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html