In message <20080104131247.GA17816_at_nagual.pp.ru>, Andrey Chernov writes: >On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:57:11PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> There is address space allocated to the process (via sbrk/mmap) >> >> A subset of this, is address space allocated by the program (via malloc) >> >> ...and then there is memory actually in use, which is an entirely different >> thing, of which we currently only have some kind of clue in the VM >> system. > >Then, we need sysctl to fetch that "memory actually in use" from the >kernel and compare that with getrlimit() which allows malloc() to return >0 when needed. No we don't. Find a book that explains how Virtual Memory works. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Fri Jan 04 2008 - 12:28:41 UTC
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