Monitoring memory use

[Ray Cote]

At 8:27 AM -0400 9/21/07, Kent Johnson wrote:
>How can I find out how much memory is used by a cron job?
>... on WebFaction

Hi Kent:
Here's how WebFaction says they determine memory usage:
     <http://blog.webfaction.com/memory-usage>

One crude approach would be to fire off the ps query every few 
seconds while you're big cron job is running and monitor memory 
consumption.

--Ray

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