Thanks people, but I am looking for a shellscript-oriented tool, to measure the maximum memory used by a process. I believe this *is* an interesting and useful measure. I am afraid top and even ps are not usefull for me. Should I run ps continuously and return the maxmum vsize?
Dan. > > > use the 'gtop', luke. you can get a complete memory map of the process, > broken down into usage by various libraries. for me it proved it be a > useful tool. > > guy > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > > P.S. Since memory consumption can change (grow or decrease) during a run, > > it is not even obvious that something like getrusage(2) for memory consumption > > can return any useful answer for a process that exited - which is perhaps > > why it was never implemented in Linux. > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
