Warp wrote:
>   But no. There doesn't seem to be any such program. I'm completely
> puzzled about why this is so.

For one thing, there's no unified performance measurement/reporting 
mechanisms in Linux. And in the original versions of Linux, you really 
could only fit a tiny number of programs in memory at once. (The reason 
fork() works the way it does is it was implemented originally (as in 
Version 7) as "swap out this process, but don't clear it out of memory 
afterwards.)

So there's no good way of seeing how much your peak memory is, or your 
disk I/O rate, or how much network bandwidth you're taking up, because 
you'd have to build each of these reporting infrastructures from 
scratch. There's no "performance monitor" kind of thing where you could 
implement *just* the memory watcher and already have the libraries to 
track peak, average, etc.

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