And for the ram used by perl you can do this also...

print `memstat |grep perl`;

you can ask for a specific process also, following the former example

print `memstat -p 28892`;

__END__

    592k: PID  5273 (/usr/bin/perl)
    116k(    108k): /lib/ld-linux.so.2 28892
     92k(     84k): [08:01]:258781 28892
     44k(     36k): [08:01]:258783 28892
     16k(      8k): [08:01]:258784 28892
    152k(    144k): [08:01]:258791 28892
   1372k(   1356k): [08:01]:258796 28892
   1404k(   1396k): /usr/bin/perl 28892
   1500k(      0k): [08:06]:242490 28892
--------
   5288k (   3132k)

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for memory use inside a specific part of a perl script see also malloc() and memstat() or -DL and warn('!') marks

In reply to Re^3: How to get the amount of RAM by pvaldes
in thread How to get the amount of RAM by Anonymous Monk

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