It doesn't write .mem files until you quit julia. The mem allocation is
cumulative throughout your whole session (or since the last call to
clear_malloc_data()).
--Tim
On Tuesday, January 06, 2015 02:15:02 PM Petr Krysl wrote:
> I did this as suggested. The code executed as shown below, preceded by the
> command line.
> The process completes, but there are no .mem files anywhere. Should I ask
> for them specifically?
>
> # "C:\Users\pkrysl\AppData\Local\Julia-0.4.0-dev\bin\julia.exe"
> --track-allocation=all memory_debugging.jl
> cd( "C:/Users/pkrysl/Documents/GitHub/jfineale"); include("JFinEALE.jl");
> include("examples/acoustics/sphere_scatterer_example.jl")
> Profile.clear_malloc_data()
> include("examples/acoustics/sphere_scatterer_example.jl")
> quit()
>
> On Tuesday, January 6, 2015 1:50:11 AM UTC-8, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> > Le lundi 05 janvier 2015 à 20:48 -0800, Petr Krysl a écrit :
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > How does one figure out where allocation of memory occurs? When I
> > > use the @time macro it tells me there's a lot of memory allocation
> > > and deallocation going on. Just looking at the code I'm at a loss: I
> > > can't see the reasons for it there.
> > >
> > > So, what are the tips and tricks for the curious? How do I debug the
> > > memory allocation issue? I looked at the lint, the type check, and
> > > the code_typed(). Perhaps I don't know where to look, but these
> > > didn't seem to be of much help.
> >
> > See this:
> >
> > http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/profile/#memory-allocation-anal
> > ysis
> >
> > (Would probably be good to backport to the 0.3 manual...)
> >
> >
> > Regards
