procdump()
(
cat /proc/$1/maps | grep -Fv ".so" | grep " 0 " | awk '{print $1}' | ( IFS="-"
while read a b; do
dd if=/proc/$1/mem bs=$( getconf PAGESIZE ) iflag=skip_bytes,count_bytes \
skip=$(( 0x$a )) count=$(( 0x$b - 0x$a )) of="$1mem$a.bin"
done )
)

Simple-Stupid user-space program doing "kill -STOP" and "kill -CONT" to protect from thrashing
Thrashing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrashing_%28computer_science%29

One large difference between C and most other programming languages is that in C, you have to handle memory yourself rather than having a garbage collector do it for you. Ensuring that memory is allocated at the correct moment is not very difficult (and something that needs to be done manually in pretty much every language); the hard part is to ensure that enough memory is allocated, and to ensure that the memory is deallocated when it is no longer in use.

When optimizing memory access, and memory cache misses in particular, there are surprisingly few tools to help you. valgrind’s cachegrind tool is the closest one I’ve found. It gives you a lot of information on cache misses, but not necessarily in the form you need it.

A quick reminder on valgrind and gdb

This page is a collection of obscure C++ features, gathered over the years as I've explored different corners of the language. C++ is very big and I'm always learning more about it. Hopefully you'll learn something from this page even if you already know C++ pretty well. The features below are roughly ordered from least to most obscure.

I want to do some low-resources testing and for that I need to have 90% of the free memory full.

How can I do this on a *nix system?