On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:50:39PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > On 21 June 2004 09:14, John Meacham wrote: > > > There might be some RTS calls to query the heap, but someone else is > > probably more qualified to comment on that. > > The value of the mblocks_allocated variable in the RTS will give you the > number of "megablocks" currently mmap()ed into the address space of the > executable, which roughly equates to the amount of memory the program is > using. A megablock is MBLOCK_SIZE bytes, currently 1Mb. > > Megablocks are never released, so this only gives you an upper limit for > the amount of memory in use. >
Thanks John and Simon, The mblocks_allocated variable should give me what I want. I think having access to this would also be useful to people who are profiling their programs. You see a few papers where people want to report how much memory their application needs, and having a high-water mark is usually good enough. Beats trying to get the information from top. Cheers, Bernie. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
