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I’m 99% sure the answer to that question is no, but I thought I’d ask anyway :slight_smile: Practically speaking it’s only of use to me if it can be done on MRI (Ruby 1.8). Trivially I can do something like (apologie…

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I’m 99% sure the answer to that question is no, but I thought I’d ask anyway 🙂 Practically speaking it’s only of use to me if it can be done on MRI (Ruby 1.8). Trivially I can do something like (apologies for the hackiness, and not using the sysutil gem): def memory_used File.read("/proc/#$$/status").match(/^VmSize:\s*(\d*)/)[1].to_i end mem_used = memory_used() mem_used_since = memory_used - mem_used # Returns difference in KB since mem_used was set But that only tells ...

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