Re: Determining the memory used by a dynamically loaded shared object

[David Daney <ddaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marcus Clyne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to determine the actual memory used by a dynamically 
> loaded (i.e. by dlopen...) shared object.  AFAIK this is less than the 
> size of the .so file on disk, but I'm not sure how to calculate it.
>
> Can anyone help?

For ELF shared objects, it should be close to the size printed by the 
'size' command.  The dynamic linker may have to allocate a small amount 
of additional memory as part of the linking process.

David Daney