Re: Finding Octave's memory use breakdown

[John W. Eaton]

On 04/25/2016 05:34 AM, LachlanA wrote:
> Juan Pablo Carbajal-2 wrote
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 5:42 AM, LachlanA <
>
> > lachlanbis@
>
> > > wrote:
> > > Is there a way to find out where Octave is using memory?  I often find
> > > that
> > > Octave is using say 2GB, but "whos" shows only a few hundred megabytes in
> > > variables.
> >
> > See if memory from here helps you
> > https://github.com/kakila/macgyver_utils/blob/master/memory.m
>
> Thanks, Juan Pablo, but that seems to show only the information available
> from top or ps.  I'm interested in a _breakdown_ of how much is use to store
> variable overheads (and how much for each variable), how much is parse trees
> (and how much for each tree), how much is libraries, how much is Octave's
> own code, and what else there is.

I don't see how you could get that information without modifying Octave 
to track and categorize its own memory allocations.

jwe