On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:31:50 +0530 Aneesh Bhasin wrote: > Hi All, > > My apologies if this is not the right place for these type of > questions - I do not know of a better place to ask this. > > I am trying to take out some memory figures from the /proc/<pid>/smaps > interface (linux v2.6.35). However, I could not find what do the > entries that have no name associated to them (no library path or > binary path with these entries) mean. So, I wrote a test C program > that allocates 100MB of memory (using malloc) and then writes to it in > chunks of 10MB. I could see that the 'Size' and 'RSS' of one of the > unnamed entries was increasing in accordance with the code, but there > were several other such unnamed sections too - is there a way to know > what and where do they come from. > > Also, I could see that for some process the smap interface was showing > a '[heap]' entry but not for all - e.g. for my above test case, there > was no '[heap]' entry, although I assumed the malloc should have > reflected in the [heap]. Can someone please tell me (or point me in > the right direction) why is heap entry there only for some processes ? > > Thanks in advance for any help.. Did you look at Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt ? It has some info on smaps and maps. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
