Your query does not make sense to me. On 21/08/2020 21:23, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Is there a way for process to ask about its own memory usage? > > Something perhaps like the C functions that were available in the dark > ages on other computer systems that could tell how much memory had > been allocated but not freed so far? Or some reasonable surrogate?
"dark ages" ? Do you mean the 'c' functions provided by including <malloc.h> ? 'man mallinfo' for an example doing exactly what you appear to be asking here. > > Yes,I know there are administrative tools that let me survail all the > processes in the system. But isn't there something the program can do > for itself without that level of agony? > > -- hendrik what 'level of agony' are you referring to ? One person may find a 'thing' difficult whilst another person with a different skillset may find the same 'thing' trivially easy. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
