Getting Process Size

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Re: Getting Process Size by edan (Curate) on Sep 12, 2004 at 15:04 UTC
Proc::ProcessTable Update: Unix::Process -- edan	[reply]
Re^2: Getting Process Size by sintadil (Pilgrim) on Sep 12, 2004 at 15:15 UTC
Proc::ProcessTable That was my original idea, as well -- until I checked the relevant `README` files and found that there are some platforms for which process size reporting isn't available. And for some of the covered operating systems, the procfs functionality which Proc::ProcessTable requires is strongly deprecated (e.g. FreeBSD).	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Getting Process Size by steves (Curate) on Sep 12, 2004 at 15:14 UTC
Not sure how I missed that. Thanks! At least we have a search entry for in on PerlMonks now. ;-)	[reply]
Re: Getting Process Size by zentara (Cardinal) on Sep 13, 2004 at 14:10 UTC
Yeah, Proc::ProcessTable is a big wasteful module, since it makes you load all process data to work with it. If you are on Linux, you can go directly to /proc and get your information. For example: #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $pid = shift \|\| $$; print get_size($pid),"\n"; sub get_size{ my $pid = shift; my @size = split "\n", `cat /proc/$pid/status`; (my $vmsize) = grep {/VmSize/} @size; my (undef,$size) = split ' ',$vmsize; return($size); } [download] I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply] [d/l]