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From: "Alan D. Brunelle" <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
To: linux-btrace@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: memory used by btt
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:17:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4607F20D.4060605@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1174922598.3667.27.camel@dhcp-119.ibrix.com>

Ming Zhang wrote:
> Hi 
>
> I am now using btt to analyze a 700MB trace data and it always run oom
> in my 2GB ram laptop. it also eat 2GB swap as well. Any idea why btt
> need so many memory?
>   

Well, BTT builds trees based upon outstanding IO traces. That could 
indicate that BTT is having a hard time dealing with your data - I find 
that sometimes the kernel does weird things, causing strange IO trees 
being built that BTT can't put back together. I've got some multi-GB 
sized binary files that I've handled, let me see what the memory 
footprint is for those...


> ps, why we always need double in the code, can float fit the bill as
> well?
>   

Probably could, but I'm not too sure about some of the conversions done 
with LBAs. I can look into that if need be.

Alan

> Ming
>
>   


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-26 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-26 15:23 memory used by btt Ming Zhang
2007-03-26 16:17 ` Alan D. Brunelle [this message]
2007-03-27  1:20 ` Ming Zhang

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