Memory usage tracking

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On Sunday, 10 May 2015 at 10:43:37 UTC, tcak wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 May 2015 at 09:44:42 UTC, tcak wrote:
>> I am testing my web server right now. I started 5 separate 
>> consoles and continuously sending request by using "curl" to 
>> it.
>>
>> It uses shared memory as well, thought from `ipcs -a`, I don't 
>> see more than necessary amount of allocation.
>>
>> At the moment, server received about 1.5M requests, and memory 
>> usage has reached to 128MB according to System Monitor of 
>> Ubuntu. (top gives a similar value as well). I saw now on 
>> `top` command that about 650KB shared memory is used only.
>>
>> Is there any way to find out what is using that big space in 
>> memory? Would `-profile` do that?
>>
>> Problem is that if I was to be using `-profile` flag, server 
>> would slow down, and I wouldn't be able to test it correctly 
>> already.
>
> Hmm. Server was compiled in debug mode. Right now, it is 2.2M 
> requests, and 174MB memory is in use.

Which compiler are you using? Also, debug mode might have linked 
against debug phobos - do a ldd on your executable.