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From: Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
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Howdy list,

I'm a Sys Admin running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE
servers.

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'?

Thanks!

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