contrib/memory.py

doc: add description about pattern matching against directories

Before this patch, there is no explicit description about pattern
matching against directories, even though users may understand it from
"plain examples" in "hg help patterns".

This patch adds description about pattern matching against
directories.

# memory.py - track memory usage
#
# Copyright 2009 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]> and others
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

'''helper extension to measure memory usage

Reads current and peak memory usage from ``/proc/self/status`` and
prints it to ``stderr`` on exit.
'''

import atexit

def memusage(ui):
    """Report memory usage of the current process."""
    status = None
    result = {'peak': 0, 'rss': 0}
    try:
        # This will only work on systems with a /proc file system
        # (like Linux).
        status = open('/proc/self/status', 'r')
        for line in status:
            parts = line.split()
            key = parts[0][2:-1].lower()
            if key in result:
                result[key] = int(parts[1])
    finally:
        if status is not None:
            status.close()
    ui.write_err(", ".join(["%s: %.1f MiB" % (key, value / 1024.0)
                            for key, value in result.iteritems()]) + "\n")

def extsetup(ui):
    atexit.register(memusage, ui)