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diff --git a/massif/docs/ms-manual.xml b/massif/docs/ms-manual.xml index f04f0d64b..4bbae501b 100644 --- a/massif/docs/ms-manual.xml +++ b/massif/docs/ms-manual.xml @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ command line.</para> <sect1 id="ms-manual.spaceprof" xreflabel="Heap profiling"> <title>Heap profiling</title> -<para>Massif is a heap profiler, i.e. it measures how much heap +<para>Massif is a heap profiler. It measures how much heap memory programs use. In particular, it can give you information about:</para> @@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ be normally run.</para> <para>Then, run your program with <computeroutput>valgrind --tool=massif</computeroutput> in front of the normal command line invocation. When the program finishes, Massif will print -summary space statistics. It also creates a graph representing -the program's heap usage in a file called +summary space statistics. It also creates a graph showing +the program's overall heap usage in a file called <filename>massif.pid.ps</filename>, which can be read by any PostScript viewer, such as Ghostview.</para> @@ -181,8 +181,8 @@ possible parts of memory:</para> <title>Spacetime Graphs</title> <para>As well as printing summary information, Massif also -creates a file representing a spacetime graph, -<filename>massif.pid.hp</filename>. It will produce a file +creates a file showing the overall spacetime behaviour of the +program, in a file called <filename>massif.pid.ps</filename>, which can be viewed in a PostScript viewer.</para> @@ -290,9 +290,9 @@ spacetime</para> <para>The first part shows the total spacetime due to heap allocations, and the places in the program where most memory was -allocated (Nb: if this program had been compiled with +allocated. If this program had been compiled with <computeroutput>-g</computeroutput>, actual line numbers would be -given). These places are sorted, from most significant to least, +given. These places are sorted, from most significant to least, and correspond to the bands seen in the graph. Insignificant sites (accounting for less than 0.5% of total spacetime) are omitted.</para> @@ -374,8 +374,8 @@ the real code address is.</para> default, or HTML with the <computeroutput>--format=html</computeroutput> option. The plain text version obviously doesn't have the links, but a similar -effect can be achieved by searching on the code addresses. (In -Vim, the '*' and '#' searches are ideal for this.)</para> +effect can be achieved by searching on the code addresses. In +the Vim editor, the '*' and '#' searches are ideal for this.</para> <sect2 id="ms-manual.accuracy" xreflabel="Accuracy"> |