Re: Need assistance in determining memory usage

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 14:01:06 EST


On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 18:11, Thomas Schenk wrote:
> was adequate, I wouldn't be asking here and every reference I could find
> indicates that this is not a trivial problem. There were also
> indications I found while searching that these tools do not always
> report memory numbers accurately. If there is a way to determine this
> information using /proc, this would be ideal, since I could then
> conceivably create a script or simple program that could determine the
> answer given the process ID, which is what the developers here really
> want.

Neither the question nor the answer are trivial. What are you trying to
do with the data may be the most relevant question

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