Hey all!
I’m happy to release Massif Visualizer v0.2. This is mainly a “fix the build-system” release, no new features have been added.
You can download it here: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=122409
Mac Support
Thanks to the reports by Chris Jones it’s now possible to build and use Massif Visualizer on Max OS X, see e.g.:
http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/~jonesc/massif-visualizer-OSX-1.png
http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/~jonesc/massif-visualizer-OSX-2.png
He has also submitted the portsfile for inclusion in Macports: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/27168
KGraphViewer now optional
I’ve made the KGraphViewer dependency optional, if anyone does not want it (even though this removes like 50% of the tools features).
KDE Infrastructure
I’ve also prepared the steps for moving Massif-Visualizer into KDE Extragear and asked kde-devel for review. I already use the KDE infrastructure now:
Website:
<https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/sdk/massif-visualizer> Git:
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Good news everyone!
Since Gaël finally came around to release KGraphViewer 2.1, I can go ahead and do the same for Massif Visualizer!
Download Massif Visualizer 0.1
This is the first release and I would be very happy if more users gave me their feedback. I intend to move to git.kde.org soon in order to leverage the KDE infrastructure (mostly translations, bug tracker, releases)… This also means: There are no translations yet! I also intend to update my OBS repository to provide packages for the first release.
Stay tuned for updates.
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Just a quick status update: Massif Visualizer now reacts on user input. Meaning: You can click on the graph and the corresponding item in the treeview gets selected and vice versa. It’s a bit buggy since KDChart is not reliable on what it reports, but it works quite well already.
Furthermore the colors should be better now, peaks are labeled (better readable on bright color schemes, I’m afraid to say…), legend is shown, …
Now lets see how I can make the treeview more useful!
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memory consumption overview
Hello everyone!
In my opinion, the massif visualizer is ready for testing. I bet there are still a few rough edges, but the most important features are in. So if you are going to do any memory profiling these days, please take a look at my tool and give me feedback. I’d be especially interested in whether the massif visualizer helps in the work flow to analyze massif data files.
My personal work flow so far is the following:
callgraph of detailed massif snapshot
- generate massif log, one way or the other (unit tests preferred since they give you reproducible test cases)
- open log in massif-visualizer, look at overall consumption chart 1. how does the memory consumption evolve? is there a memleak? 2. are there designated peaks which could be reduced? 3. are there any (significant) contributions to the memory consumption, that needlessly stay over the whole application life?
- to find the actual culprits in code and/or to grasp the composition of a memory peak, use the detailed snapshot analysis
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