[Haskell-cafe] Memory profiling

[Chaddaï Fouché]

2008/6/16 Pieter Laeremans <pieter at laeremans.org>:
> Hi,
>
> Which tools do you recommand for memory profiling   haskell programs
> on a *nix system.
> I'm using haskell to develop a CGI program/script.
>
> The application has to be deployed on shared hosting infrastructure.
> Since I would like to be a good citizen ,
> I would need to meassure the maximum amount of memory allocated to the
> program during execution.
> The best I can do now is look at top but that 's not satisfactory.

Are you aware that by calling the program with the correct RTS options
you can have memory profiling ?
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/runtime-control.html
(see option -s for simple statistics)
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/prof-heap.html

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Jedaï