mallinfo equivalent on FreeBSD

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 12/07/2010, at 12:40, dhruva wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:49 PM, dhruva <dhruvakm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>  I would like to know the memory usage (total virtual memory) inside a
>> process and make decisions accordingly.
>> To be more specific, I am using BerkeleyDB backed set or std::set (C++
>> STL) depending on my current memory usage
>> as my process will need to run in a resource constrained environment.
>> By the way, this is user mode application.
>> 
>> Some things I am considering/tried:
>> 1. GNU/Linux has mallinfo and I had my code working based on the
>> information I get from the call.
> 
> Could anyone please help and throw some light on this topic (mallinfo)
> equivalent. I am stuck and need
> resolve this soon. In short, I need to find out the virtual memory
> used (mapped to the process's address space)
> in a light weight fashion so that I can make some decision based on it.

Can't you use getrusage to find that out?

As for system wide stats, I think you could look at sysctl, specifically the vm tree.

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