Code example showing how to get the memory used by the current Linux process in C/C++.

GetLinuxProcessMemoryCpp.cpp

#include "sys/types.h"
#include "sys/sysinfo.h"

int parseLine(char *line) {
	// This assumes that a digit will be found and the line ends in " Kb".
	int i = strlen(line);
	const char *p = line;
	while (*p < '0' || *p > '9') p++;
	line[i - 3] = '\0';
	i = atoi(p);
	return i;
}

typedef struct {
	uint32_t virtualMem;
	uint32_t physicalMem;
} processMem_t;

processMem_t GetProcessMemory() {
	FILE *file = fopen("/proc/self/status", "r");
	char line[128];
	processMem_t processMem;

	while (fgets(line, 128, file) != NULL) {
		if (strncmp(line, "VmSize:", 7) == 0) {
			processMem.virtualMem = parseLine(line);
			break;
		}

		if (strncmp(line, "VmRSS:", 6) == 0) {
			processMem.physicalMem = parseLine(line);
			break;
		}
	}
	fclose(file);
	return processMem;
}

Is there a way to directly read the raw binary value instead of converting from string?