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From: roth@ordin.cs.wisc.edu (Bill Roth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: measuring memory usage
Message-ID: <1992Aug17.203206.6271@cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:32:06 GMT
Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News)
Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences
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Hi.

Is there any simple way to measure the memory a process uses from
within the process at certain benchmark points? I do not want to set
up counters at every malloc. I merely want to see the change in memory
usage after some operation has occurred.

Please email your replies.
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