Linked Questions

What exactly is POSIX? I have read the Wikipedia article but I still don't understand.

I have this tail recursive function here: def recursive_function(n, sum): if n < 1: return sum else: return recursive_function(n-1, sum+n) c = 998 print(recursive_function(...

Is there a way for a Python program to determine how much memory it's currently using? I've seen discussions about memory usage for a single object, but what I need is total memory usage for the ...

I have a problem with a Java application running under Linux. When I launch the application, using the default maximum heap size (64 MB), I see using the tops application that 240 MB of virtual ...

So I am looking at a heap with jmap on a remote box and I want to force garbage collection on it. How do you do this without popping into jvisualvm or jconsole and friends? I know you shouldn't be in ...

From the official documentation (source): process.memoryUsage() Returns an object describing the memory usage of the Node process measured in bytes. var util = require('util'); console.log(...

On POSIX systems, termination signals usually have the following order (according to many MAN pages and the POSIX Spec): SIGTERM - politely ask a process to terminate. It shall terminate gracefully, ...

I was trying to figure out how much memory I can malloc to maximum extent on my machine (1 Gb RAM 160 Gb HD Windows platform). I read that the maximum memory malloc can allocate is limited to ...

This question is meant to fill the vacuum of good free information on the subject. I believe that a good answer will fit into one big SO answer or at least in a few answers. The main goal is to give ...

My app was killed by the oom-killer. It is Ubuntu 11.10 running on a live USB with no swap and the PC has 1 Gig of RAM. The only app running (other than all the built in Ubuntu stuff) is my program ...

Tools like 'ps' and 'top' report various kinds of memory usages, such as the VM size and the Resident Set Size. However, none of those are the "real" memory usage: Program code is shared between ...

I have a CentOS server. System is nginx/php-fpm. It has 16GB RAM. CPUs : 8 CPU Frequency: 2660.203 MHz Why am I getting this error in my error log? php-fpm/error.log: [02-Aug-2014 17:14:04] WARNING: [...

I need to get the memory usage of the current process in C. Can someone offer a code sample of how to do this on a Linux platform? I'm aware of the cat /proc/<your pid>/status method of getting ...

The following problem occurs on a machine running Ubuntu 10.04 with the 2.6.32-22-generic kernel: Setting a limit for the Resident Set Size (RSS) of a process does not seem to have any effect. I ...

I just executed a program that mallocs 13 MB in a 12 MB machine (QEMU Emulated!) . Not just that, i even browsed through the memory and filled junk in it... void large_mem(void) { #define ...