What's the best way to determine the most memory a program uses
during its execution?

Thanks!

kj

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Depending on how accurate of data you need, usually top or ps will do
the trick.  If you want more data than just eye balling top, run ps in
a shell script to have it poll the process every couple of
seconds/minutes too see how much memory it is using.  With a command of
ps  -o vsz,rss <pid> you can get a good idea of these values.

Also, if you wanted in another shell you could run watch -n 5 "ps  -o
vsz,rss <pid>" which will run the command every 5 seconds.

Hope this helps!
Chris

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