Heap profile of spectest HARNESS_TYPE=6 TEST_JOBS=2 and 50 files in spectest.data

gistfile1.txt

dogbert@dogbert-VirtualBox ~/repos/rakudo $ ./perl6 -I /home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/install/share/perl6/site/lib /home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/install/share/perl6/site/bin/moar-ha heap-snapshot-1486499969.01023
Considering the snapshot...looks reasonable!

This file contains 11 heap snapshots. To select one to look
at, type something like `snapshot 3`.
Type `help` for available commands, or `exit` to exit.

> snapshot 0
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> top objects
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Name                                   Total Bytes      
=====================================  ===============  
NQPArray                               5,513,044 bytes  
BOOTStaticFrame                        4,224,405 bytes  
BOOTInt                                3,608,256 bytes  
NFAType                                2,644,272 bytes  
BOOTHash                               1,877,232 bytes  
VMString                               1,820,832 bytes  
SCRef                                  961,932 bytes    
BOOTCode                               888,720 bytes    
Parameter                              700,872 bytes    
BOOTNum                                662,832 bytes    
BOOTStr                                359,860 bytes    
Perl6::Metamodel::ContainerDescriptor  334,224 bytes    
BOOTCompUnit                           315,444 bytes    
Method                                 262,752 bytes    
BOOTIntArray                           216,748 bytes    

> summary
    Total heap size:              27,015,345 bytes

    Total objects:                423,641
    Total type objects:           2,377
    Total STables (type tables):  2,375
    Total frames:                 3,720
    Total references:             1,616,372

> snapshot 9
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> top objects
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Name                                   Total Bytes      
=====================================  ===============  
NQPArray                               5,690,516 bytes  
BOOTStaticFrame                        4,700,879 bytes  
Buf[uint8]                             3,805,840 bytes  
BOOTInt                                3,608,472 bytes  
NFAType                                2,647,980 bytes  
BOOTHash                               2,320,452 bytes  
VMString                               1,976,562 bytes  
BOOTCode                               997,400 bytes    
SCRef                                  961,932 bytes    
Parameter                              831,440 bytes    
BOOTNum                                663,960 bytes    
Scalar                                 428,672 bytes    
Perl6::Metamodel::ContainerDescriptor  385,536 bytes    
BOOTStr                                378,260 bytes    
Method                                 343,712 bytes    

> summary
    Total heap size:              34,092,661 bytes

    Total objects:                457,885
    Total type objects:           2,498
    Total STables (type tables):  2,496
    Total frames:                 6,879
    Total references:             1,806,174

> 

while running the above I typed 'ps' several times and got stuff like this:

dogbert@dogbert-VirtualBox ~/repos/rakudo $ ps auxww
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
dogbert  29220 97.0 25.9 976792 805160 pts/2   Sl+  21:37   1:24 /home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/install/bin/moar --execname=./perl6-m --libpath=/home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/install/share/nqp/lib --libpath=/home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/install/share/nqp/lib --libpath=. /home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/perl6.moarvm --nqp-lib=blib --profile=heap -Ilib t/harness6 --fudge --tests-from-file=t/spectest.data
dogbert  29415 73.4  2.4  81820 75132 pts/2    R+   21:38   0:13 /home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/install/bin/moar --execname=./perl6-m --libpath=/home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/install/share/nqp/lib --libpath=/home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/install/share/nqp/lib --libpath=. /home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/perl6.moarvm --nqp-lib=blib -Ilib t/spec/S02-literals/string-interpolation.t

the below is what ps looks like if I run the same spectest file without --profile=heap, seems as if that option disprupt the readings quit a bit

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
dogbert  30271 18.9  7.7 430800 239100 pts/2   Sl+  22:58   0:10 /home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/install/bin/moar --execname=./perl6-m --libpath=/home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/install/share/nqp/lib --libpath=/home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/install/share/nqp/lib --libpath=. /home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/perl6.moarvm --nqp-lib=blib -Ilib t/harness6 --fudge --tests-from-file=t/spectest.data
dogbert  30460 96.6  2.4  84092 76864 pts/2    R+   22:58   0:22 /home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/install/bin/moar --execname=./perl6-m --libpath=/home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/install/share/nqp/lib --libpath=/home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/install/share/nqp/lib --libpath=. /home/dogbert/repos/rakudo/perl6.moarvm --nqp-lib=blib -Ilib t/spec/S02-literals/string-interpolation.t