From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to optimize use of RAM/disk access ? Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 12:38:11 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <1892f04b-0223-4060-90a7-91983f775f18@googlegroups.com> <752bb990-b70a-4fce-8cd7-91d4f8ee7ea1@googlegroups.com> <91e9a70d-0c7a-4577-a48f-8f31b60eadb2@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 9s2HXjYgtb87Rt4JbNw44Q.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50379 Date: 2018-02-11T12:38:11+01:00 List-Id: On 2018-02-11 11:58, darkestkhan wrote: > Use valgrind for checking memory leaks - top would show you only big ones (I know that few bytes may not sound like much, but IT IS A LOT - for example windows 10 audio driver seems to leak memory [otherwise you can't explain why it uses over 500MB of memory after just 2-3 weeks of running] - how? small leak over prolonged period of time becomes big one). For memory leaks I would recommend gnatmem. It is extremely easy to use. No code change required. It groups similar memory allocations together. It also finds leaks related to C code, which is the main source of leaks when using bindings to low-level C libraries. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de