Measuring memory usage in Ruby
I've recently been working on fixing a memory leak in a Ruby web server. I dug up this code snippet I found somewhere and wanted to share. Works on OSX; probably Linux too.
puts `ps -o rss= -p #{$$}`.to_iAnd to force garbage collection, run this before measuring:
GC.startHappy tuning!
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Written by Bryan Powell
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Not working at all.
ā ~ puts ps -o rss= -p #{$$}.to_i
ps: option requires an argument -- p
usage: ps [-AaCcEefhjlMmrSTvwXx] [-O fmt | -o fmt] [-G gid[,gid...]]
[-g grp[,grp...]] [-u [uid,uid...]]
[-p pid[,pid...]] [-t tty[,tty...]] [-U user[,user...]]
ps [-L]
Wat. Here's what it does for me:
irb(main):005:0> `ps -o rss= -p #{$$}`.to_i
=> 13188OSX or Linux?
@rozzy probably you already noticed, this has to run in a ruby script as it gets the process id as input and provides memory usage as output. Some details: --- Backticks operator places your command in a shell script and returns it's result (there are many other variants, http://goo.gl/HGg2ee). --- The double dollar sign is a ruby method and retrieves the script's current process ID. --- The following code is a bash script which finds the memory usage of a particular process id: ps -o rss= -p PROCESS_ID
