Statistics of Malloc (The GNU C Library)

#### 3.2.3.10 Statistics for Memory Allocation with `malloc` ¶

You can get information about dynamic memory allocation by calling the `mallinfo2` function. This function and its associated data type are declared in `malloc.h`; they are an extension of the standard SVID/XPG version.

Data Type: struct mallinfo2 ¶

  This structure type is used to return information about the dynamic memory allocator. It contains the following members:

  `size_t arena`

    This is the total size of memory allocated with `sbrk` by `malloc`, in bytes.

  `size_t ordblks`

    This is the number of chunks not in use. (The memory allocator internally gets chunks of memory from the operating system, and then carves them up to satisfy individual `malloc` requests; see The GNU Allocator.)

  `size_t smblks`

    This field is unused.

  `size_t hblks`

    This is the total number of chunks allocated with `mmap`.

  `size_t hblkhd`

    This is the total size of memory allocated with `mmap`, in bytes.

  `size_t usmblks`

    This field is unused and always 0.

  `size_t fsmblks`

    This field is unused.

  `size_t uordblks`

    This is the total size of memory occupied by chunks handed out by `malloc`.

  `size_t fordblks`

    This is the total size of memory occupied by free (not in use) chunks.

  `size_t keepcost`

    This is the size of the top-most releasable chunk that normally borders the end of the heap (i.e., the high end of the virtual address space’s data segment).

Function: `struct mallinfo2` mallinfo2 `(void)` ¶

  Preliminary: | MT-Unsafe init const:mallopt | AS-Unsafe init lock | AC-Unsafe init lock | See POSIX Safety Concepts.

  This function returns information about the current dynamic memory usage in a structure of type `struct mallinfo2`.