MEMPROBE(1)

NAME
memprobe - ROOT utility to examine memory usage

SYNOPSIS
memprobe [options]

DESCRIPTION
To activate the memory checker you have to set in the .rootrc file the resource Root.MemCheck to 1 (e.g.: Root.MemCheck: 1) and you have to link with libNew.so (e.g. use root-config --new --libs) or use rootn.exe.

When all this is the case you will find at the end of the program execution a file memcheck.out in the directory where you started your ROOT program. Alternatively you can set the resource Root.MemCheckFile to the name of a file to which the leak information will be written. The contents of this memcheck.out file can be analyzed and transformed into printable text via the memprobe program (in /usr/bin).

SEE ALSO
root(1)

See also the ROOT webpages: http://root.cern.ch

ORIGINAL AUTHORS
The ROOT team (see web page above):
    Rene Brun and Fons Rademakers

COPYRIGHT
ROOT Software Terms and Conditions

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AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Christian Holm Christensen <cholm@nbi.dk>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).