Print report during profiling

[mehboobali98]

Is it possible to print the report while memory profiling is being done?

P.S. The program I wish to profile would take about an hour to run. I'd like to see the memory it is using while executing.

[fatkodima]

The report is printed only when the memory profiling is done.
You may try to trap SIGINT (fired when you press ctrl-c) and print the report here. After every press it will print more and more complete report (no reset of the state is done when generating report).

[fatkodima]

Another solution is, again, listen to some signals and then fork a separate process, that will calculate the memory profile, while the main process continues to run (similar to how redis does snapshots).

@SamSaffron Do you think this feature is worthwhile investigation?

[SamSaffron]

I think it is an interesting project, I don't want to complicate stuff too much too much, we need to be mindful.

Open to experimentation.