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Mr. JS
Joined: 02 Jul 2008
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Location: Kiel, Germany
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 Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:11 am Post subject: memory profiler / tracer? |
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Hi!
Does anybody know how to find out how much memory a program uses during execution? Is there some kind of debugger/profiler which does this? Since I use dynamic memory allocation a lot, it would be interesting to know which arrays are allocated currently and their size.
Thanks for your help!
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mkcolg
Joined: 30 Jun 2004
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Location: The Portland Group Inc.
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Hi Jan,
Most people simply use 'top' to determine how much total memory a program is using. For more advance memory profiling, you should take a look at Valgrind (www.valgrind.org), specifically the Massif heap profiler. I have not used Massif myself, and don't know if it will give you the details your looking for, but it is worth investigating.
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