known-issues

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**			TAU Portable Profiling Package			   **
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**    Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon **
**    Advanced Computing Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory        **
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This file lists known limitation of TAU.

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* Memory tracking with mallinfo

TAU uses the mallinfo call when available on a system.  mallinfo is not 64-bit 
clean and is only accurate up to 4GB.  The getrusage call is used on some other
systems, but does not work at all for Linux systems.


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