On 12 Jan 2002 at 23:38, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > Can someone tell me if there is any way to figure out how much memory > would be required by a certain app?
If you are sure it doesn't have a memory leak then you can start it at any amount of RAM. Predicting exact amount required is a tough task.(Others have pointed it out.) You can safely assume it to be minimum to the binary size assuming you don't do any allocations. A single loop doing malloc and overwriting it to the sam pointer won't generate a big binary but it will consume a huge amount of memory if executed as root.. I hope you got the idea..Otherwise try running free before and after you lauch the app. But this is not 100% sure methd. You do the same thing on 64MB/128MB/256MB RAM machine and you will get different result, as kernel will cache entire binary if it has space it it's disposal... May be data files too.. Shridhar _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
