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Subject: Re: API to find the memory usage of a process.
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On Thursday 18 March 2010 18:28:48 Jayadev Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     I  need to find the memory usage of a process, from inside the process.
> Is there any system call
> do this ? I was trying to find it from 'top' utility source code. I
> couldn't find the port which it is coming
> from yet.
>
> Thanks,
> Jayadev.

Check out getrusage(2).

- Pieter