porting an app that checks /proc/meminfo

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

Simon Barner wrote:
> Brooks Davis wrote:
> > If you want the ram used by a particular process use getrusage(2).
> 
> Unfortuantely, memory usage information does not seem to be implemented on
> Linux (it certainly is on FreeBSD). Another instance of those annoying
> portability issues...

This is a big annoyance for me. I have to (somewhat) accurately track
the max. memory usage of my program, which is easily done on my FreeBSD
development machine, but it's impossible to do on the Linux machines I
have to do the runtime measurements.

Darn Linux!

Ulrich Spoerlein
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