ioalloccount(8)

ioalloccount8

Summarize iokit memory usage.

Usage

ioalloccount

Overview

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

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

Examples

ioalloccount

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

Releases

163 releases since Mac OS X 10.0; the text changed 3 times.

  1. 10.0–10.2.8
  2. 10.3–10.3.9
  3. 10.4–10.5.8
  4. 10.6–26.5

From IOKitTools 125 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.