Graphics Memory Usage Capture

Use the Profiler application's Memory usage capture option to capture memory usage data on the target device. The data is stored in the profiler data file during a trace operation and can later be viewed in the Analyzer (Figure 1).

Figure 1. Memory Usage Capture information displayed in an analyser view.

The Symbian OS API allocates memory in chunks. A chunk is a region of RAM mapped into contiguous linear addresses. At creation, a process has one to three chunks:

A process can create more chunks, including global chunks accessible by other processes. When a chunk is created, is owned by the current process or the current thread.

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