# Memory profiling of evm circuit Using `time` for benching the maxium memory usage: ```shell= /usr/bin/time -v target/release/deps/zkevm_circuits-c4b2265bb2943930 --nocapture --ignored bench_evm_circuit_prover ``` + for reference, we bench state circuit first with DEGREE=20: Command being timed: "target/release/deps/zkevm_circuits-c4b2265bb2943930 bench_state_circuit_prover --nocapture" User time (seconds): 12431.26 System time (seconds): 218.95 Percent of CPU this job got: 1578% Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 13:21.61 Average shared text size (kbytes): 0 Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0 Average stack size (kbytes): 0 Average total size (kbytes): 0 Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 37301620 Average resident set size (kbytes): 0 Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0 Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 105193599 Voluntary context switches: 616876 Involuntary context switches: 42687 Swaps: 0 File system inputs: 0 File system outputs: 0 Socket messages sent: 0 Socket messages received: 0 Signals delivered: 0 Page size (bytes): 4096 Exit status: 0 + then bench evm circuit with DEGREE=16 Command being timed: "target/release/deps/zkevm_circuits-c4b2265bb2943930 --nocapture bench_evm_circuit_prover" User time (seconds): 6399.74 System time (seconds): 823.01 Percent of CPU this job got: 901% Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 13:20.95 Average shared text size (kbytes): 0 Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0 Average stack size (kbytes): 0 Average total size (kbytes): 0 Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 50736496 Average resident set size (kbytes): 0 Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0 Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 283349927 Voluntary context switches: 5374169 Involuntary context switches: 483201 Swaps: 0 File system inputs: 0 File system outputs: 0 Socket messages sent: 0 Socket messages received: 0 Signals delivered: 0 Page size (bytes): 4096 Exit status: 0 + DEGREE=16 with `include_large_table` set to false, no change Command being timed: "target/release/deps/zkevm_circuits-c4b2265bb2943930 --nocapture bench_evm_circuit_prover" User time (seconds): 3159.69 System time (seconds): 468.74 Percent of CPU this job got: 438% Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 13:46.82 Average shared text size (kbytes): 0 Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0 Average stack size (kbytes): 0 Average total size (kbytes): 0 Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 50735260 Average resident set size (kbytes): 0 Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0 Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 266386474 Voluntary context switches: 1285457 Involuntary context switches: 6252 Swaps: 0 File system inputs: 0 File system outputs: 0 Socket messages sent: 0 Socket messages received: 0 Signals delivered: 0 Page size (bytes): 4096 Exit status: 0 + DEGREE=16 with 8 threads for RAYCON, no change on memory usage Command being timed: "target/release/deps/zkevm_circuits-c4b2265bb2943930 --nocapture bench_evm_circuit_prover" User time (seconds): 2544.83 System time (seconds): 459.23 Percent of CPU this job got: 313% Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 15:59.70 Average shared text size (kbytes): 0 Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0 Average stack size (kbytes): 0 Average total size (kbytes): 0 Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 50745876 Average resident set size (kbytes): 0 Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0 Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 262471125 Voluntary context switches: 679734 Involuntary context switches: 4334 Swaps: 0 File system inputs: 0 File system outputs: 0 Socket messages sent: 0 Socket messages received: 0 Signals delivered: 0 Page size (bytes): 4096 Exit status: 0 + with DEGREE=17, 100GB ram being consumed so we can not bench larger degree (the host has only 196GB RAM) Command being timed: "target/release/deps/zkevm_circuits-c4b2265bb2943930 --nocapture bench_evm_circuit_prover" User time (seconds): 11969.11 System time (seconds): 1279.58 Percent of CPU this job got: 874% Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 25:14.19 Average shared text size (kbytes): 0 Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0 Average stack size (kbytes): 0 Average total size (kbytes): 0 Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 101404816 Average resident set size (kbytes): 0 Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 1 Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 548465099 Voluntary context switches: 5455375 Involuntary context switches: 382139 Swaps: 0 File system inputs: 0 File system outputs: 0 Socket messages sent: 0 Socket messages received: 0 Signals delivered: 0 Page size (bytes): 4096 Exit status: 0