the title, I've got a compiled go binary and I'm trying to see exactly how much memory it uses (in megabytes) and its CPU usage. I'm using fedora linux. any help appreciated greatly, thanks in advance.
#Is there a way to see precise CPU, and memory usage of a Go program?
ionic zinc
idle raptor
do you know use to use top or htop ?
ionic zinc
yea I've used htop, but I couldn't see it in the process list
idle raptor
try lunching htop as root
ionic zinc
should I also launch the binary as root or just my usual user?
idle raptor
your usual user
htop should work if you lunch it as the same user but I'm lazy and lunching it as root should always work
ionic zinc
alright, ill try this very soon and report back the results, thank you.
ionic zinc
@idle raptor Thank you! with your help i managed to find my program's memory usage
for those who may need this in the future:
i ran sudo htop, used the search feature in htop to find my program, and then i looked at the RES column, and that states memory usage in kb, which if you put into a quick converter for megabytes or gigabytes tells you exactly how much a paticular program on your system is using.
dreamy lotus
You could also use the runtime package to look at current stats about memory usage, GC pause, etc.: https://pkg.go.dev/runtime#ReadMemStats
gritty zenithBOT
ionic zinc
You could also use the `runtime` package to look at current stats about memory u...
ooh, thats very interesting: ill have a look at using that too, since my project is designed to use up very very little resources, this could be helpful too, to keep a watch on it. thank you
magic junco
There is a pprof package to help you to debug https://pkg.go.dev/runtime/pprof
gritty zenithBOT
magic junco
And net/http/pprof if you are lazy to wrap low level pprof
https://pkg.go.dev/net/http/pprof
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