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Old 12-26-2006
stack region

how can i determine that
what percentage of stack region is currently is used?
(i am using tru64 unix)
# 2  
Old 12-27-2006
Most solutions are going to be very specific to the exact OS involved. Poking around on FC5, I see that Linux has this kind of info available in the /proc filesystem. Excerpt from "man 5 proc":
Code:
/proc/[number]/stat
              Status   information   about   the   process.    This   is   used   by   ps(1).    It   is   defined  in
              /usr/src/linux/fs/proc/array.c.

              The fields, in order, with their proper scanf(3) format specifiers, are:
              startstack %lu
                     The address of the start of the stack.

              kstkesp %lu
                     The current value of esp (stack pointer), as found in the kernel stack page for the process.

So maybe you can look at Tru64 to see if it has anything like that.

Here is a crazy idea that might work on any OS to get a good approximate value. Earlly in main() take the address of an auto variable and store the address for future reference. Later, when you want to check the stack size, allocate a new auto variable and now subtract the addresses and take the absolute value to get an approximate stack size.
# 3  
Old 12-29-2006
Code:
struct rlimit rlim;
getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim);
printf("STACK: cur - %ld max - %ld\n", rlim.rlim_cur, rlim.rlim_max);

rlim.rlim_cur shows current usage for the process. I think the OP wants all stack usage (across all processes), which I have no idea how to get. That would be totally internal to the kernel for each OS.

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 12-29-2006 at 10:23 AM..
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