On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:

> 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?

yes. assuming your process is long-lived, and you can afford taking a
measure only once a second, or once every few seconds.

--
guy

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 or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy


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