Measuring memory footprint in C/C++ code on FreeBSD

[Wojciech Puchar]

>> footprint?
>
> Almost certainly yes. Measuring virtual memory is significantly less
> important for real-world loads. Some of this is very nicely described
> here: https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/ArchitectNotes .

definitely.
just run top and compare RES and SIZE fields.

extreme example:

#include <unistd.h>
int blah[1000000000];
main(){sleep(1000);}


run it and see this in top
13317 wojtek        1  45    0  3817M   684K nanslp  0   0:00  0.00% 1