Monitoring the memory footprint of an application?

[VBDotNetProgrammer]

Hiya,

Im writing an application which is intended for the embedded market and as a result have quite severe memory constraint with which to consider.

Does anyone know the best way to monitor the memory usage of the application accurately.

Other than looking at the windows task manager which is very crude

Thanks

 

[franklane]

There used to be some tool in the older versions of windows dev studio that might help. Going from memory, it was named heapwalker after Luke Skywalker if Jedi knight fame. It seems the tool allowed the user to do a variety of neat things with memory including observing it's allocation. Don't know if it just looked at the heap or stack or data or text or any combination of any of the above. There might be some good freeware for doing this sort of thing available at the sourceforge website. The stuff I have obtained there has been commercial quality or close to it, except for having less bugs That last line's a joke.

Here's the site:

http://sourceforge.net/

hope this helps,
franklane

 

[Salem]

There's a whole bunch of stuff in the memory debugging side of things.
Try starting your search with say CrtMemDumpStatistics

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[ArkM]

See also MSDN for PSAPI functions: GetProcessMemoryInfo et al...

 

[VBDotNetProgrammer]

Great, Thanks for that i shall take a look.