From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32760BB84 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:28:21 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,252,1231110000"; d="scan'208";a="21357369" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 12 Jan 2009 12:28:21 +0100 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n0CBSKW9027848 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:28:20 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEANm3aklSkiEx/2dsb2JhbADRXoVv X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,252,1231110000"; d="scan'208";a="21357368" Received: from 5070.info ([82.146.33.49]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 12 Jan 2009 12:28:20 +0100 X-Bogosity: Unsure, tests=bogofilter Received: from [82.146.37.6] (john.ispsystem.net [82.146.37.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by 5070.info (8.14.3/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n0CBSGxf003017 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:28:18 GMT (envelope-from john@ispsystem.com) Subject: [Caml-list] Re: memory usage From: John Lepikhin To: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: References: <1231746106.4376.27.camel@john-laptop> <20090112083913.GA28059@annexia.org> <1231751641.4376.39.camel@john-laptop> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:28:15 +0800 Message-Id: <1231759695.4376.55.camel@john-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (5070.info [82.146.33.49]); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:28:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 496B2954.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; descriptors:01 descriptors:01 threads:01 threads:01 unix:01 unix:01 caml-list:01 data:02 data:02 modules:02 string:02 sys:03 module:03 mutex:03 pipes:04 > To get real memory used, (Sys.word_size * live_word / 8). Do you use > out-of-heap datastructure that can use memory ? (malloc-ed > datastructure). The only specific module is ocaml-fd (send file descriptors over pipes). I have suspicion on it, but as I said before, 90% of process memory is filled with specific text data, which is got inside threads and sent to socket using Unix.write. This data doesn't look like file descriptors :-) All other modules are from distribution (Unix, String, Mutex, Threads). I heard about ocaml-memprof patch. Will it help here?