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Date:      05 Sep 2003 09:58:35 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        jesse@wingnet.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: process memory peak recording
Message-ID:  <44fzjb72wk.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <bj5rdn$3r5$5@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <bj5rdn$3r5$5@sea.gmane.org>

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Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> writes:

> During a recent programming/installation
> project, I found myself wanting to know
> the peak memory usage of a given command/process.
> 
> Is there any way to gather this information
> without recompiling an application with a
> sleep or wait statement at the (assumed)
> point of peak memory usage and then looking
> at the process with 'ps'?

Running under a debugger is one typical way of doing this.
For strictly malloc(3)'d memory, a memory profiler will be an easier
option.  If I remember correctly, there is a choice of them in the
ports system.



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