Re: Memory profiling tools for Linux Kernel

2014-04-04 Thread Kumar Amit Mehta
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 01:49:05AM -0700, aaditya.gavandal...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi, > > You can you a heap profiler to check heap usage for example massif. > > Massif is a tool under valgrind package. You can research on valgrind more > for other helpful tools as well. Memcheck is bydefault in

Re: Memory profiling tools for Linux Kernel

2014-04-04 Thread Kumar Amit Mehta
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 10:34:54AM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote: > On 4 April 2014 02:45, Kumar Amit Mehta wrote: > > I was looking for some tools for memory profiling for Linux Kernel. I > > I wish to analyze the memory usage statistics by comparing the results > > (with and without the usage of Lo

RE: Memory profiling tools for Linux Kernel

2014-04-04 Thread Pietro Paolini
On 4 April 2014 02:45, Kumar Amit Mehta wrote: > I was looking for some tools for memory profiling for Linux Kernel. I > I wish to analyze the memory usage statistics by comparing the results > (with and without the usage of Lookaside caches) by the consumer (Say > a certain driver).I found some t

Re: Memory profiling tools for Linux Kernel

2014-04-04 Thread aaditya.gavandal...@yahoo.com
Hi, You can you a heap profiler to check heap usage for example massif. Massif is a tool under valgrind package. You can research on valgrind more for other helpful tools as well. Memcheck is bydefault in usage in valgrind. Massif gives data in form of a graph which can be printed using ms_prin

Re: Memory profiling tools for Linux Kernel

2014-04-04 Thread Vegard Nossum
On 4 April 2014 02:45, Kumar Amit Mehta wrote: > I was looking for some tools for memory profiling for Linux Kernel. I > I wish to analyze the memory usage statistics by comparing the results > (with and without the usage of Lookaside caches) by the consumer (Say > a certain driver).I found some t

Memory profiling tools for Linux Kernel

2014-04-03 Thread Kumar Amit Mehta
I was looking for some tools for memory profiling for Linux Kernel. I I wish to analyze the memory usage statistics by comparing the results (with and without the usage of Lookaside caches) by the consumer (Say a certain driver).I found some tools such as kmemcheck[1] and KEDR [2] but before I go f