Re: [Caml-list] Memory usage of ocaml program

[Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>]

Also Bigarrays, although this falls under "libraries that use C bindings".

E.

On 11/23/2012 1:40 AM, Gabriel Scherer wrote:
> If you use the C bindings (or a library that does), you may have
> allocated memory from C, outside the OCaml heap. This memory is not
> handled by the GC and will not appear in the GC stats.
>
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Chengqi Song <songcq@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have the same program (same binary) running in different modes. From
>> GC stats I see they're using the same amount of heap now (209m) and
>> the stack is small. But in top's RES column, I see one is using 270m
>> memory and the other one is using 622m. Forcing heap compaction does
>> not change the numbers.
>>
>> I don't quite understand this difference. A program's memory usage
>> should be code, static data, heap and stack. For the same binary, code
>> and static data segment should be the same, and now that GC stats
>> tells me heap and stack are the same, why there is a 352m difference
>> in memory usage?
>>
>> Thanks