1 memory_watcher is a library that can be linked into chromium to trace the 2 memory allocations. It works by hooking the system allocation/deallocation 3 functions, and recording the actions. 4 5 To use memory_watcher in chromium: 6 7 (1) Compile the memory_watcher library (it is part of the solution by default) 8 9 (2) Run chromium with these flags "--memory-profile -no-sandbox" 10 (The instrumentation doesn't work with the sandbox) 11 12 (3) Hit ctrl-alt-D to generate a dump of the memory allocations. 13 This will create a log file called memorywatcher.logXXXX for every 14 chromium process (where XXXX is the pid). 15 16 The log file is a human readable text format, which can be further analyzed 17 using the helpers in the "scripts/" directory. 18
