[Mono-dev] Profiling / Memory Management tools

[Greg Young]

Will read through but I am interested in the unmanaged side (part of
what I am working on is actually an injected profiler)

Cheers,

Greg

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Dan Liew <dan at su-root.co.uk> wrote:
> On 31 May 2015 at 17:35, Greg Young <gregoryyoung1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What tools are people using with mono? I have tried as an example
>> using valgrind to verify the stuff I am working on is reasonable but
>> the listings of problems that come out are massive.
>
> Checking the memory usage via valgrind will be pretty useless to you
> unless you know the mono internals. If you do want to continue down
> that route look at [1].
>
> You're more likely to be interested in memory use at the level of your
> C#/F# code. To do this I've used mono's built-in memory profiling [2],
> e.g.
>
> $ mono --profile=log:heapshot my_program.exe
>
> You can specify how frequently shots of the heap are taken. You can
> view the result using mprof or heapshot [3].
>
> [1] http://www.mono-project.com/docs/debug+profile/debug/#using-valgrind-on-mono
> [2] http://www.mono-project.com/docs/debug+profile/profile/profiler/#profiler-option-documentation
> [3] https://github.com/mono/heap-shot



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