Hi all

When using 'massif' it is recommended for short programs to use 
'--time-unit=B' option since o/w no or hardly any output is shown using 
ms_print for visualisation [1].

My question is now regarding the units of the x-axis.

As far as I have understood represents the unit the cumulated number of 
bytes allocated and freed when option '--time-unit=B' is used.

Snapshots are taken for allocations and de-allocations, but also 
in-between of them.

Since the value of the y-axis (Each vertical bar represents a snapshot, 
i.e. a measurement of the memory usage at a certain point in time. [1]) 
and the value of the x-axis, which represents the cumulated number of 
bytes allocated and freed, have a dependency to each other, how is it 
possible that a parallel line to the x-axis is drawn in the graph [1] 
since actually only a change in the heap usage should generate a forward 
move on the x-axis.

Hope my problem was described somehow comprehensible.


Many thanks for your contributions
Eric

[1]...http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/ms-manual.html


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