On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:22:53PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > How do you interpret the massif output? > > Not very easy, since massif will tell you what *allocated* it, but then > trying to see who was supposed to free it is another issue altogether. > > I also find the textual output to be very confusing. But what massif is > really good at is to look at the memory usage over time in the postscript > file it generates, and that gives you a much better feel for what > particular allocation is a problem. > > In this case, it's patch_delta that generates all the memory usage (well, > 98% of it ;^), but that's not that helpful unless you know git internals, No 37%, the 98% list is the list of calls that generate 98% of the total allocations git blame does, and then massif lists each individual call, and patch_delta generates 37% of the total. Though it's meaningless without knowing how much time this memory stayed allocated> -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx OOO http://www.madism.org
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