Re: Chart of wireshark memory usage

[Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com>]

On 2013-07-25, at 12:47 AM, Anders Broman <a.broman () bredband net> wrote:

> Jakub Zawadzki skrev 2013-07-20 16:41:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Recently I was trying to move io_stat graph functionality to some GtkWidget.
> > For now I failed, but as a side effect result I've created memory usage dialog ;]
> >
> > It looks like this: http://www.wireshark.org/~darkjames/memory_dlg.png
> >
> > Attaching dirty patch (not ready for merging), enjoy.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jakub.
> Hi,
> I committed the memory_dlg code as I made it work on windows and it will be easier to collaborate on
> it in SVN. For the emem patch should it return both the allocated and used sizes as that would be a more
> accurate indication of the memory used by the application.
>
> For the function reading the memory used by the application should that be in it's on section in epan or wsutil
> if it's useful for other purposes? Part of the summary information?
> Regards
> Anders

If people are interested in pursuing this further, it would be very easy to write a wmem allocator that provides much 
more detailed statistics (number of allocations by size, for example). Not everything goes though wmem yet, but I'll 
get there eventually.

Evan

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