From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2005-06-01T00:20:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Benchmarking RAM

On Mon, 30 May 2005, Gavin Kistner wrote:

> How can I measure the amount of RAM (allocated, not real) is used by a
> particular approach to a problem? I can use the winmgmts stuff for Windows,
> so I'm primarily interested in a BSD/MacOS X solution.

did you consider sending yourself a signal to dump core and check the core
file size?  it's a hack for sure... but it can be quite revealing.

cheers.

-a
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