How to profile memory usage of a C program

Question

I need to figure out which part of a linux program that I am running, is taking how much (either percentage, or absolute) memory. I need to create a profile of multiple such

Answer 1

Beside Valgrind, there exists a lot of other memory debugger/profiler. All the following seems to support MIPS (but I've not tried them on that architecture) :

jemalloc, CCMALLOC, mpatrol, NJAMD, Dmalloc, and even Google's own google-perftools.