oh noes! my memory has been teh stoeled!

Posted by nuxi on 2008-Jul-21 at 23:43:54 in Computers (Login to reply)

So despite most of my projects sitting around half completed. I've decided to finally start one I've been threatening to do for awhile.

Ever wonder how much RAM programs really use? I intend to find out. BTW /proc/<pid>/(maps|stat|status) lies to you regarding memory usage. Just in case you missed that memo ;)

The trick is getting all the data I want atomically without introducing a deadlock. Did I mention this involves a kernel hack? I don't know what I'll find out, but if I knew what I was doing it wouldn't be called research.