What if any system calls exist to get the current process' system memory usage (including all of the current process' threads) in a C/C++ based program?

I'm trying to write unit tests to make sure that my memory allocation processes (for Boost "smart pointers") are actually deallocating correctly after thousands of dynamic allocations...and my presumption is that a process-memory "self check" thoughout this process will be very useful for my self-running unit test.

I'd prefer cross-platform calls (be it POSIX, unix/linux, Boost C++, etc) if I can get them, but I'll take a system specific all (for my testing prototype) if I must.

Thanks for any help,
-Matt

Well you can execute the following two commands:

or

You can sort top by using Shift-m to sort by memory utilization.

They need to be system calls *inside* my C/C++ program about my current process. Unfortunately, ps(1) or top(1) will not work, but I appreciate the feedback. Further, a shell call from the code is highly undesirable, and probably will not work at all. Please consider this more of a "real-time" kind of unit test program.

-Matt

Ideally, getrusage() should, but not all fields are supported in Linux, so you must use the /proc/<pid> information which is what ps(1) does. See proc(5).

I'm sorry, I misunderstood your question.