[racket] Profiling memory use

current-memory-use is counting all of DrRacket's memory and the user
program memory. The limit, however, includes only the user program's memory.

Robby


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Daniel Prager <daniel.a.prager at gmail.com>wrote:

> Apropos:
>
> I was wondering why I couldn't limit memory in a Racket program directly
> -- for running from the command-line -- as distinct from in Dr Racket, but
> the following transcript shed doubts on Dr Racket:
>
> Welcome to DrRacket, version 5.3.6 [3m].
> Language: racket; memory limit: *256 MB*.
>
> > (/ (current-memory-use) (expt 10 6))
> 900 52839/125000
>
> > (collect-garbage)
> > (/ (current-memory-use) (expt 10 6))
> 660 25687/31250
>
>
> [Replicated in 5.91.]
>
> Does (current-memory-use) include overhead for e.g. the DrRacket runtime?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Daniel Prager <daniel.a.prager at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Is there a good reference to measure and understand Racket memory use?
>>
>> I'm doing a run of scribble and memory use is peaking at over 1 Gb.
>>
>> I expect that I will be able to make modifications to limit use if I can
>> get some informative measurements.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> --
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>
>
>
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