Monitoring memory use

[Ben Scott]

On 9/21/07, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
> There is also the Python library function
> resource.getrusage() but it doesn't seem to help - the ru_maxrss
> parameter is always 0.

  getrusage(2) on my CentOS 5 box says most of the rusage fields are
not implemented in the Linux kernel.  That being one of them.  Too
bad, 'cause otherwise, according to what the man page says, the
solution would be almost trivial. :-(

-- Ben