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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Space usage profiling: massif

massif is a valgrind tool, that can be used to profile the space usage of a program:

valgrind --tool=massif ./myprogram

The result is a massiv.out. file. The most important information in it can be visualized using e.g. ms_print:

ms_print massif.out.0000 | less

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