Determining the memory usage of a program

[Simon Burton]

Peter Barker wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Michael Still wrote:
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>>I have a program which takes quite a while to run, and eventually dies --
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> The best sort. Lots of coffee involved.
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>>I think because it runs out of memory. I would like a command where I can
>>go:
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> Have I mentioned strace before? :-)

maybe.
what has it to do with memory usage?


> 
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>>and have it output stats when the program ends, much like time does for
>>time.
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> Have you had a squiz at the man page for time?? :-)

I did. it measures time. is yours different?


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