Autokill Workers which have grown too big

[Eric Wong]

hukl <hukl at berlin.ccc.de> wrote:
> Also I'd like to know if there is a way to get the current memory  
> footprint of a worker other than something like:
>
> %x(ps -o rss= -p #{Process.pid}).to_i

Hi John,

I know under Linux it's possible to parse /proc/$$/stat and also
(the bigger, but more human-readable) /proc/$$/status to get
current memory usage.

There's also the sys-proctable gem, too, which I haven't used.

-- 
Eric Wong