[Boost-build] [PING] Memory profiling unreliable?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-26 05:03:58

On Friday 07 April 2006 18:39, Vladimir Prus wrote:

Any comments on the above? Anything I can do to debug this issue?

> it seems that memory profiling in bjam is not 100% reliable. Here's what I
> did:
>
> 1. Create a simple Python script:
>
> for i in range(0, 7000):
>     print "obj target_%d : a.cpp ; " % i
>
> 2. Run it, redirecting output to "Jamroot"
>
> 3. Create empty file "a.cpp"
>
> 4. Run "bjam -n -d+10 > profile"
>
> 5. The profile has:
>
>     0  214010000          0     0.000000 1056312754 1056312754 [TOTAL]
>
> that's 1 056 312 754 bytes of memory. In practice, bjam does not take more
> that 150 M of memory. What could be the problem?
>
> - Volodya
>
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