On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 1:41:40 PM UTC-5, Tim Holy wrote:
>
> You can find the places where garbage is collected using ProfileView; bars 
> in 
> red correspond to lines that trigger gc. For this to work properly, your C 
> backtraces have to resolve the function name correctly. That worked for me 
> on 
> Kubuntu 12.04, but after upgrading to Kubuntu 14.04 now I get garbage back 
> from C backtraces. (Go figure.)


Thanks.  I'm not sure that everything is working properly on Ubuntu 
14.04/(LLVM 3.5 from svn) for me but the results seem reasonable.  The 
(admittedly small amount of) memory allocation is taking place in 
randmtzig_randn from librandom.jl.
 

> In that case, I recommend saying 
>     ProfileView.view(C=true) 
> and then at least you can guess that it's a gc event from the tall stack 
> of 
> bars (the garbage-collector is heavily recursive). 
>

I could see that but I didn't remember how to manipulate the graph.  The 
stack was so tall that the lines I was interested in were hard to select 
with the mouse.  Is there a way of zooming in on the window?

Of course, garbage collection does not always happen at every line that 
> triggers allocation. You may also be interested in 
> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/7464 
> which more directly detects allocation. It should work on your machine as 
> long 
> as you don't "make install" julia in a separate directory from where you 
> cloned it (that proves to be the source of the Travis failure). 
>
> --Tim 
>
> On Tuesday, July 08, 2014 11:22:46 AM Douglas Bates wrote: 
> > I believe I saw discussion of finding areas of memory allocation in the 
> > output of Profile.view() or the flame plot from ProfileView.view(). 
> >  However, like so many other things, I fail to remember the details. 
> > 
> > The particular case I am interested in is described in an IJulia 
> notebook 
> > called Bootstrap.ipynb in the repository 
> github.com/dmbates/JuliaWorkshop. 
> >  I have eliminated almost all of the memory allocation in the inner loop 
> of 
> > a simulation but there is some vestigial allocation going on that I 
> can't 
> > track down. 
> > 
> > The notebook can be viewed at 
> > 
> > 
> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/dmbates/JuliaWorkshop/blob/master/Bootstr 
> > ap.ipynb 
>
>

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