Re: [Valgrind-users] Valgrind massif -- difference between time(B) and total(B) columns

[Milian W. <ma...@mi...>]

On Thursday, July 09, 2015 12:10:14 PM Anthony Haas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When running with valgrind massif with --time-unit=B option, how can the
> time(B) column value be so much larger than the total(B) column value?
> In this case at snapshot 35, I have a total of 119,461,400 but the
> time(B) is at more than 1GB. What does that mean? and where does it come
> from?

The time(B) just counts how much memory was requested in total, ignoring 
deallocations, and uses that for a "time" axis. The total(B) counts how much 
memory is currently being used, i.e. actually takes deallocations into 
account.

HTH
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