From: gmate.amit@gmail.com (Kumar Amit Mehta)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Memory profiling tools for Linux Kernel
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 15:09:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140404120936.GC12452@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1396601345.99327.YahooMailAndroidMobile@web162703.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 01:49:05AM -0700, aaditya.gavandalkar at 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 usage in valgrind.
>
> Massif gives data in form of a graph which can be printed using ms_print command. Graph tells about various allocations done from heap and at what time.
>
> Hope this helps
Unfortunately, valgrind won't work for Linux Kernel :(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-04 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-04 0:45 Memory profiling tools for Linux Kernel Kumar Amit Mehta
2014-04-04 8:34 ` Vegard Nossum
2014-04-04 8:49 ` aaditya.gavandalkar at yahoo.com
2014-04-04 12:09 ` Kumar Amit Mehta [this message]
2014-04-04 11:56 ` Pietro Paolini
2014-04-04 12:06 ` Kumar Amit Mehta
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