Re: Memory usage information

[tomhukins]

I've never done anything like this on Windows, but a hunt around CPAN comes up with Win32::SystemInfo. If this doesn't meet your needs, why not use an external tool to monitor your process? Does WinCE have the Windows Task Manager, and if so would that be any use?

In general, I'd recommend BSD::Resource for this, but I doubt it will work on WinCE.

[svad]

Thank you for interesting input, and sometimes your approach this will work good. But I am trying to find less platform-dependent (WinCE is just an example!) but rather Perl-specific solution, something similar to Devel::Prof or even DB::DB modules.

I think best solution will be an XS module that understands Perl internals and provides information, but I am lost whether such exists, or can be written without changing the Perl core.

BTW will BSD::Resource work for Linux? for Win32?

[tomhukins]

Typing BSD::Resource linux into Super Search comes up with Re: How to limit resources ?.

I can't find anything that suggests BSD::Resource runs under Windows. Activestate ship PPMs for Linux and Solaris but not Windows, which suggests it won't run there. However, it seems cygwin might support getrlimit (getrlimit is the system call that BSD::Resource uses to retrieve information).