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Asked: 2026-05-31T08:59:37+00:00

I’ve writen a program in c++, compiled it with Intels C++ compiler and is

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I’ve writen a program in c++, compiled it with Intels C++ compiler and is running it under Mac OSX.

I would like to profile the maximum memory usage of the program, what tool would I use for this?

I would prefer a commandline tool, for scripting purposes.

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    Though I have not tried this, Valgrind Massif profiling tool should help to do this. From
    Massif manual:

    By default Massif measures only heap memory, i.e. memory allocated
    with malloc, calloc, realloc, memalign, new, new[], and a
    few other. Therefore, the numbers reported by Massif may be
    significantly smaller than those reported by tools such as top that
    measure a program’s total size in memory. However, if you wish to
    measure all the memory used by your program, you can use the
    –pages-as-heap=yes.

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