On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 03:34:43PM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > > > Is there a utility to measure memory usage of a process, > > preferably proken into > > > static/stack/heap? The man page of GNU `time' suggests that it > > should do the > > > trick, but running > > > /usr/bin/time myprog > > > always reports 0 memory usage. > > > > In addition to Nadav's reply, and not a direct answer to yours: > > In VMS, and some BSDs, you can press <Ctrl><T> and get a status line > > about the current process. I started implementing this for Linux, > > but didn't continue very much due to lack of interest (only 2-3 > > people replied to mails to lkml, linux-serial, linuxconsole-dev). > > 'started' means it works, and caused no problems to me (yet?), > > but you can't e.g. control it with stty. If interested, look at > > <http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~didi/ctrl-t>. It does work with 2.4.7, > > but I didn't check newer kernels. > > If I see interest in this forum, maybe I'll invest more time in this. > > A variant already exists in the Linux kernel. If you compile your kernel with magic >sysrq key and didn't disable it via the proc interface (like some versions of Redhat >do) you can press Alt+Shit+SysRq plus a key to get a lot of functions. if the key is >"x" you'll get a menu of all possible keys. One of them gives out memory status of >all proccess.
I know and love SysRq, but it's not a substitute. It doesn't work remotely (telnet/ssh), it gives too much output unless you're in an emergency, it's Linux-specific. Ctrl-T is a semi-standard, and outputs only one line (at least on VMS, the BSDs I checked, and with my patch), and is exactly the thing I wanted to press while doing e.g. 'dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb' to copy a whole disk to have a progress indicator. > > Gilad. > > > -- > Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Tel: +972(9)9717330 | Fax: +972(9)9717334 | Cel: +972(54)756701 > Kagoor Networks ltd | http://www.kagoor.com | > > > > 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] Didi ================================================================= 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]
