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Velvet Memory usage

07-11-2012, 12:11 AM

Hello all,

i would like to ask how can i check the peak of ram used in Velvet. top command is disabled in the supercomputer that i am wokring. I tried also /usr/bin/time -f "%P %M" but this command reports the virtual peak of memory. Is any other way?

Thank you a lot.
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