how can I see how much memory my program is eating?

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my program is running and creating variables, I need to know what's the total of Bytes these variables take.

I don't want to know how much is the physical memory space that the system gives my program to be executed, I know I can open the processes manager and find out. I neither want to write into my code some sizeof and agregations so I can know the total size of the variable pool (let say the code is too complex to be modify like that). Finally I'm using Microsoft VC++ 2010 Express, I just want to know if there is a workspace which monitor that kind of information.

Thanks in advance.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/413477/is-there-a-good-valgrind-substitute-for-windows. — netcoder, Feb 25 '12 at 16:25

Roman R. · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-25T16:33:27.933

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Check this out: Memory Performance Information . There are few metrics of a running process you might be interested in, you will primarily want private bytes, and this data is available both programmatically or through tools like Performance Monitor. You can also enumerate heaps of the process with GetProcessHeaps (and even HeapWalk if you need details) and check heap allocation sizes directly.

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answered Feb 25 '12 at 16:26

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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Valgrind Massif profiler is a great tool (see here ) but only for Unix/Linux I think. In your case, on Windows I think Insure++ or softwareverify are good choices (they are commercial tools).

A free alternative is Google's tcmalloc which provides a heap profiler here

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answered Feb 25 '12 at 16:36

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how can I see how much memory my program is eating?

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