Markus Wanner writes:
> Eric Anderson wrote:
> > Assuming that the code for getting memory usage is derived from the
> > code I wrote a long time ago (output looks similar, so likely); I
> > expect that the memory consumption differences are just sampling
> > effects. It sampled every 1 second or so, and so changes to runtime
> > can affect when the memory usage is sampled and hence the estimated
> > memory usage.
>
> Yeah, I've been questioning the 'avg' value as well. If you now tell me
> that sampling is done at 1 second intervals, then I even suspect the max
> value to not be very meaningful.
If a run went on for a while (20-60s), and you ran it multiple times
(I did), it's generally pretty good, but it certainly wasn't something
that should be trusted blindly. I generally ignored the memory
information unless I was looking at something > 1.5x.
-Eric
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