You can try searching for memory profilers, like http://valgrind.org/
Aditya On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Sharad Binjola <[email protected] > wrote: > > > which one?.. gprof shows me the time spent in every function and gcov shows > me the extent of code coverage. Any other profiling tool you can point me > to? Or, does any one of these allow one to find the memory reqmt through > using some special option? > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Aditya Vishwakarma < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> profiling tools can help you there, >> >> Aditya >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Sharad Binjola < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I want to find out the maximum amount of memory required by an >>> application (a CPP executable). I know there has got to be a utility for >>> this kind of thing, but can't find it. I just need to know the value of the >>> peak memory used by the program in its last run (though getting a memory >>> usage graph would be just spectacularly wonderful). Also, observing the >>> process's memory usage manually doesn't quite cut it. I am on Linux. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> -- >>> (www.codefactory.co.nr) >>> IT, Fourth Year >>> NSIT >>> Delhi University >>> >>> >> > > > -- > (www.codefactory.co.nr) > IT, Fourth Year > NSIT > Delhi University > > >
