Re: tracking Lua's memory usage

["Dirk Feytons" <dirk.feytons@...>]

On 7/12/07, Stephen Kellett <lua@objmedia.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > I've also written an experimental tool for memory allocation visualization
> > inspired in the paper below:
>
> A generic tool for program memory visualisation - works with any Win32
> application. Its a free download from Software Verification. It shows
> virtual memory for the app and the app paging table usage.
>
> http://www.softwareverify.com/cpp/virtual_memory/index.html
> http://www.softwareverify.com/download_vm.php
>
> Also, a Lua specific memory analyser (Windows only) which is in beta.
> http://www.softwareverify.com/lua/memory/index.html

Looks nice for Windows; unfortunately (but not really :) ) I'm on an
embedded Linux platform. There you can already get pretty far with
/proc and NFS for dumping logs.

Also, in my case I wanted to track only the Lua memory usage while it
was embedded in another application. It was for benchmarking purposes;
I wanted to have a quick way to compare Lua memory usage to the memory
usage of another solution. A big advantage of the Lua allocator is
that you get the size of a block when it is freed. This made the
tracking very straightforward.

--
Dirk