I think Yaron is looking more for the APIs in arrow/util/byte_size.h [1] which has utilities for estimating the size of the buffers in an array or record batch. (I'm assuming you're not concerned with the size of the C++ structures themselves.)
[1]: https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/cpp/src/arrow/util/byte_size.h On Fri, Oct 28, 2022, at 09:40, Rok Mihevc wrote: > Hey Yaron, > > If you're using jemalloc you can use jemalloc_get_stat [1] to monitor total > memory allocation. Another option would be LoggingMemoryPool, see tests on > possible usage [2]. > > Rok > > [1] > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/cpp/src/arrow/memory_pool_jemalloc.cc#L157 > [2] > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/cpp/src/arrow/memory_pool_test.cc > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 3:10 PM Yaron Gvili <rt...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is there a supported/convenient way for measuring the memory usage of >> Arrow structures? For my specific use case, measuring memory usage of >> either a record batch or an array would be sufficiently convenient. >> >> >> Cheers, >> Yaron. >>
