Profiling Perl app memory usage

[Nicholas Clark]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:38:42PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> IvorW wrote:
> >>Is anyone aware of anything that makes it easier to portably 
> >>track a Perl app's memory usage?
> >
> >Try Devel::Size for size.
> 
> Devel::Size is great for individual variables, but doesn't give you a total 
> memory footprint.

You can get mostly there with total_size(\%::) but it's not perfect, as it
doesn't yet know about all the memory all perl structures allocate.

In theory you (well, anyone) could take the ithreads cloning code and hack
it to chase down everything that gets allocated, but that doesn't show you
leaks.

Is wrapping a call to sbrk(0) with Inline::C good enough?

Nicholas Clark