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Re: about memory information of one given process

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 07:30:08PM +0800, David Davy wrote:
> I'm a newbie to linux kernel and userland developing. Would you mind tell
> me that how can I get physical and virtual memory size used by current 
> process.

grep '^Vm' /proc/self/status

VmSize if the virtual size, VmRSS is the physical size.

> At the same time, I don't want to depend 'proc' file system.

AFAIK this information is only exported through the proc filesystem.


Erik

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