Profiling memory allocations in run-time in production

[Evgeniy Ivanov]

Hi,

I need to profile my application running in production. Is it
performance safe to build jemalloc with "--enable-prof", start
application with profiling disabled and enable it for short time
(probably via mallctl() call), when I need? I'm mostly interested in
stacks, i.e. opt.prof_accum. Or are there better alternatives in
Linux? I've tried perf, but it just counts stacks and doesn't care
about amount of memory allocated. There is also stap, but I haven't
try it yet.


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Cheers,
Evgeniy