Benchmarking RAM

[Gavin Kistner]

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.

(Though a pure Ruby solution would be cooler than platform-specific.)

 

[Daniel Berger]

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.

(Though a pure Ruby solution would be cooler than platform-specific.)

You should be able to use sys-proctable for Windows and BSD, and use
the appropriate ProcTableStruct members. I don't have an
implementation for OS X yet, however.

Regards,

Dan

 

[Ara.T.Howard]

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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