On Sunday, 23 June 2013 at 09:37:26 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2013-06-22 23:41, Walter Bright wrote:
Compiling std.algorithm for unittests consumes all the memory
on many
machines. I've been looking into what is allocating all that
memory, and
it isn't so easy without adding instrumentation code anywhere.
Anyone know of a convenient tool to do this on Linux?
(valgrind just hangs, or at least I gave up on it after 6
hours)
There's a tool called dtrace on Mac OS X and *BSD which
possibly could be used for this. Don't know if there's a
corresponding tool for Linux. Hmm, seems to be available on
Oracle Linux.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace
That would be SystemTap on Linux. However, I wonder if it is the
right tool for the job.
