On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 09:25:01PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > Would be useful to figure out in more details where the memory > consumption goes in your test case. > > Unfortunately gcc doesn't have a good general heap profiler, > but I usually do (if you're on Linux). Whoever causes most page > faults likely allocates most memory. > > perf record --call-graph dwarf -e page-faults gcc ... > perf report --no-children --percent-limit 5 --stdio > file.txt > > and post file.txt into a bug in bugzilla.
There also is the last column of -ftime-report (amount of GC memory alocated in each pass), it often is helpful. Segher