Today I Learned

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The memory your Ruby process is taking

Today I learned how to get the memory taken by a Ruby process from inside a Ruby code:

def mem
  `ps ax -o pid,rss | grep -E "^[[:space:]]*#{$$}"`.strip.split[1] + ' KB'
end
mem
# => "61772 KB"

By the way in Ruby $$ is the same as Process.pid.

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