Thank you for this information. I need to write this application to be able to run under Solaris and AIX. I need to detect memory leaks, is the process still active, etc. I hope that this will help you to understand what I am trying to-do.
Ronald Mundell
Support & Maintenance
Nedbank Ltd.
105 West
BG3
881-3751(011)
0834111107
-----Original Message-----
From: Bayard Bell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 March 2003 08:08
To: Mundell, R. (Ronald)
Cc: Perl-Win32-Users (E-mail); Perl-Unix-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [Perl-unix-users] How do one determine the amount of memory
used by an process within perl
"How" to do this?
That request doesn't necessarily make sense in a platform-independent
context, and it only gets you somewhere on a given platform if you
understand something about memory allocation for that platform. Most
modern Unixes make a distinction between text pages or shared memory map
pages where the memory allocation is intended not to be a per-process
allocation and memory allocation made directly to a process
image-specific heap. How much of this is resident will vary by VM.
Widely.
Proc::ProcessTable::Process objects can include information about memory
use, but the source code that I scanned for this module doesn't look to
have a Windows port. More importantly, you can't make many assumptions
about the nature of a process ("process" doesn't mean the same thing on
say, Linux vs. Solaris) or its memory usage across platforms just
because its presented through the same interface.
Caveat emptor.
"Mundell, R. (Ronald)" wrote:
>
> Good day
>
> I am busy writing a script that will determine the status of an
> application. I also need to determine the amount of memory used by
> such an application. If anyone knows how to do this within perl please
> help. This solution needs to be platform independent.
>
> Ronald Mundell
> Application Support & Maintenance (Retail & Corporate)
> Nedbank Ltd.
> 105 West
> BG3
> 881-3751(011)
> 0834111107
>
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