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Measures the current (and peak) resident and virtual memories usage of Linux C/C++ process
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| /* | |
| * Measures the current (and peak) resident and virtual memories | |
| * usage of your linux C process, in kB | |
| */ | |
| void getMemory( int* currRealMem, | |
| int* peakRealMem, | |
| int* currVirtMem, | |
| int* peakVirtMem ) | |
| { | |
| // stores each word in status file | |
| char buffer[1024] = ""; | |
| // linux file contains this-process info | |
| FILE* file = fopen( "/proc/self/status", "r" ); | |
| // read the entire file | |
| while ( fscanf( file, " %1023s", buffer ) == 1 ) { | |
| if ( strcmp( buffer, "VmRSS:" ) == 0 ) { | |
| fscanf( file, " %d", currRealMem ); | |
| } | |
| if ( strcmp( buffer, "VmHWM:" ) == 0 ) { | |
| fscanf( file, " %d", peakRealMem ); | |
| } | |
| if ( strcmp( buffer, "VmSize:" ) == 0 ) { | |
| fscanf( file, " %d", currVirtMem ); | |
| } | |
| if ( strcmp( buffer, "VmPeak:" ) == 0 ) { | |
| fscanf( file, " %d", peakVirtMem ); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| fclose( file ); | |
| } |
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