Perl Memory Management

[IDStewart]

Is there a way in perl (short of resorting to system()) to determine the amount of memory used by a particular process?

TIA,
Ian

[jeroenes]

CPAN is your friend, as always. (there is even a nifty nodelet in User settings.)

Try Proc::ProcessTable if you are on unix... or search for 'Proc' on search.cpan.org.

Jeroen
"We are not alone"(FZ)

Update
I was curious about Win32 solutions. I couldn't find a dedicated module on CPAN. Did some Super search. No obvious answers. But with some more digging I found monitor.pl and Re: WIN32 calls, they can be useful starting points (Getting a Local/Remote Win32 Task List is not very different, dissapointingly enough)

[IDStewart]

CPAN is your friend, as always. (there is even a nifty nodelet in User settings.) Try Proc::ProcessTable if you are on unix... or search for 'Proc' on search.cpan.org.

Looks promising. Pitty it won't build on Solaris...

Oh well. It least I know where to start digging...

[jeroenes]

What about Solaris::Procfs?

[rob_au]

In addition to this, I have recently posted some code to Q&A which will return process memory usage via the Proc::ProcessTable module. The Q&A thread where this can can be found is here.

 

Ooohhh, Rob no beer function well without!

[perrin]

Not a good one, but there are modules that do it with other programs or libraries, like GTop.