Getting process's memory usage

[Peter A. Friend]

Tom Browder wrote:
> On 5/16/08, Manal Helal <manalorama@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Eljay
>>
>> That's very intuitive idea :) my mind was focused on finding a
>> function to use in the source code,
>>     
>
> I'll bet valgrind has a way to do it.
>   
I have used a couple different methods. On Solaris I have either read 
the appropriate /proc entry for the process, or used the vmalloc 
library, which has a number of nice features:

http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/ref/vmalloc/vmalloc.html

Peter