IOALLOCCOUNT(8)

💖 ioalloccount(8) — IOKit memory accounting, bestie 💖

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for ioalloccount(8) from the System Manager's Manual, and it's literally here to give you the memory-accounting vibe check. No cap, it's giving "who allocated what in the kernel?" 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ioalloccount — summarize IOKit memory usage. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ioalloccount

that's the whole synopsis, bestie. periodt. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ioalloccount displays some accounting of memory allocated by IOKit allocators, including object instances, in the kernel. iconic behavior, honestly 🌈

This information is useful for tracking leaks. 🔥 Instance counts can also be found in the root of the IORegistry in the “IOKitDiagnostics” property. iykyk. 👑

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

like, here's the whole slay in action:

       ioalloccount
                 Instance allocation = 0x0022c718 = 2225 K
                Container allocation = 0x00141bad = 1286 K
                 IOMalloc allocation = 0x00638221 = 6368 K
                 Pageable allocation = 0x00f4f000 = 15676 K

the way it just prints those allocations?? obsessed. 💚

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• ioclasscount(8)
• ioreg(8)

go off, bestie — those are the related manual pages. 🫶

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Darwin, November 06, 2008 — that's the source/version and date, and this page is officially signed off with main-character energy. 💫