Glynn Clements wrote: > 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. Wow, really? Reading /proc/<pid>/* is pretty expensive, especially if you have to do it for 1000's of procs. That's probably why top is such a cpu-hog. Thanks! -- Al - 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
