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

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 21/10/2011, at 4:27, Razmig K wrote:
>    I think that it would be difficult to achieve the task in a platform-transparent manner, that's why I'll be using /proc/<pid>/status on Linux, and do something else on FreeBSD.
>    I was adviced to have a look on getrusage, which I did, but I found descriptions of certain fields of struct rusage in the manpage too cryptic to make a proper use of the call.
>    Could someone please point me in the right direction?

getrusage should be portable and the man page (at least on FreeBSD) explains each of the fields.

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