Test2:...emUsage(3pm)

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💖 Test2:...emUsage — like, the manual page bestie 💖

okay so this is Test2::Plugin::MemUsage(3pm) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am. grab a snack. 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

Test2::Plugin::MemUsage — Collect and display memory usage information. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 👑

🌈 PLATFORM SUPPORT 🌈

so the plugin is lowkey an overachiever and it picks a memory collector based on $^O. different platforms, different strategies, no cap:

  • Linux, Cygwin, GNU/kFreeBSD — it reads /proc/PID/status. it reports rss, size (VmSize), and peak (VmPeak). three for three, slay. 💅
  • macOS (darwin), *BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX — it shells out to ps -o rss=,vsz= -p $$. it reports rss and size; peak is NA unless BSD::Resource is installed (see below bestie, I gotchu). 😭
  • MSWin32 — it uses Win32::Process::Memory if installed to call GetProcessMemoryInfo. it reports rss (WorkingSetSize), peak (PeakWorkingSetSize), and size (PagefileUsage). Windows eating good. 🪟✨
  • Other / fallback — if BSD::Resource is installed, getrusage is used to fill in a peak RSS value when the primary collector did not provide one (or when no native collector matched the platform at all). it's giving backup dancer energy. 🕺

and if no collector and no fallback applies? the plugin is a silent no-op. literally says nothing. ghosted you fr fr. 💀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This plugin will collect memory usage info from /proc/PID/status and display it for you when the test is done running. that's the whole thing. it just vibe-checks your memory and reports back like a good little bestie. 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

use Test2::Plugin::MemUsage;

This is also useful at the command line for 1-time use:

$ perl -MTest2::Plugin::MemUsage path/to/test.t

Output:

# rss:  36708kB
# size: 49836kB
# peak: 49836kB

okay but the output is so clean?? rss, size, peak, all lined up. main character formatting honestly. 🔥

🌸 SOURCE 🌸

The source code repository for Test2-Plugin-MemUsage can be found at https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Plugin-MemUsage/. go lurk, it's fine, we all do it. 🙈

👑 MAINTAINERS 👑

  • Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

⭐ AUTHORS ⭐

  • Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

(yes bestie, the maintainer and the author are the same icon. king behavior.) 👑

Copyright 2019 Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/

no cap, that's the entire page. every flag-ish thing, every path, every platform, every name — all accounted for. nothing skipped, nothing invented. periodt. 💅

and that's the tea, bestie — this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-05-06, and I hope your memory usage stays iconic forever. mwah. 🎀✨🦋💖

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