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This is a good suggestion - it may be worth pointing out that you can't tell the difference between a large amount of memory allocated for a long time and many smaller short-term allocations. It's hard to know whether the questioner is also interested in other memory usage (stack, mmapped files, text segments etc).

Toby Speight
– Toby Speight

2017-07-07 08:55:33 +00:00
Commented Jul 7, 2017 at 8:55
@TobySpeight If you look at the linked answer, you can actually get histogram output of much more specific data

cat
– cat

2017-07-07 15:27:03 +00:00
Commented Jul 7, 2017 at 15:27
Consider editing to add that comment about the link, so that others know why they might want to follow it. I haven't used Massif very much, but did think it was probably a better choice than Memcheck here - thanks for confirming that!

Toby Speight
– Toby Speight

2017-07-10 08:07:08 +00:00
Commented Jul 10, 2017 at 8:07

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