Inspecting your process memory distribution

It is important to know how much memory each individual process uses, otherwise you can spend considerable time trying to optimize the heap. Therefore, you can use the System Information view to inspect the distribution and overall memory usage for each process.

Note: In order to complete this task, the IDE must be currently running, you must have created a target project, and your target host must be connected.

To inspect the process memory distribution:

Run the process that you want to inspect on the target.
Switch to the System Information perspective.
In the Target Navigator view, select the target on which your process is running.
Switch to the System Summary view. In this view, you can obtain an overview of the process memory.
On the All Processes tab, select a process.

From this illustration, you can see how much physical memory the selected process occupies; in this example, it is 116 KB of Code, and 292 KB of Data.
Switch to the Memory Information view.
In the Target Navigator view, expand your target and select the same process you selected earlier.
You can see a detailed map of the virtual memory for the process.

Based on the memory distribution information in the preceding example, you can determine if it is ideal to allocate time to optimize the heap memory. If not, you might want to consider optimizing something else, such as the stack or static memory.