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Follow-up to https://crrev.com/c/5377832.

Change-Id: I7bd935f2cdbd352d2ebe9ad65c0056ddc8334c36
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/5384027
Auto-Submit: Daniel Lehmann <dlehmann@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Lize <lizeb@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Benoit Lize <lizeb@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Clemens Backes <clemensb@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#1276135}
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Daniel Lehmann
2024-03-21 11:37:38 +00:00
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docs/memory/heap_profiling_external.md

@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ blindspots here](tools.md#heap-dumps).
[TOC]
## <a name="heaptrack"></a> Using `heaptrack`
## <a name="heaptrack"></a> Using heaptrack
1. Build or install [heaptrack] and its GUI.
2. [Build Chrome](../get_the_code.md) with the following added to your
@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ is_component_build = true # so that the allocation functions are dl-export
```
Since [PartitionAlloc Everywhere](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R1H9z5IVUAnXJgDjnts3nTJVcRbufWWT9ByXLgecSUM/preview),
you should additionally disable PartitionAlloc and use the system allocator
instead, so that more allocations are captured in heaptrack. (Note that
instead so that more allocations are captured in heaptrack. (Note that
PartitionAlloc is still used in Blink, just not for `malloc` in other places
anymore.) Add these build flags additionally:
```
@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ as `heaptrack.chrome.$pid.zst`. (Check the Chrome task manager for which tab
corresponds to which process ID.)
4. Analyze the heap dump with `heaptrack --analyze heaptrack.chrome.$pid.zst`.
## Using `tcmalloc` + `pprof`
## <a name="tcmalloc"></a> Using tcmalloc + pprof
Motivation: An alternative to heaptrack is to use the [heap
profiler](https://gperftools.github.io/gperftools/heapprofile.html) which is