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Re: Debugging a large program
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 05:15:14PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > BTW, 405MB was for gdb running to main() not just what I said above :) There
> > probably are a few global variables but I don't think they should take up
> > too much space.
>
> That requires loading symbol information for all the shared libraries,
> which is probably what's taking all the space. 400MB+ is a bit
> unusual, but I don't know how big your libraries are.
Your libraries contain 288MB of DWARF2 debug information. We're
winding up with less than twice that in memory usage for reading in
partial symbols. It probably could be reduced somewhat - say, 30%.
But some of this data we've just got to hold in memory.
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Daniel Jacobowitz