On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Anticipating a Reply wrote: > How to find out how much of the total > Virtual memory ( i.e. 4GB for IA-32 ) > is being used & how much is free Every process has its own virtual memory area. You can check this area in /proc/<pid>/maps as well as /proc/<pid>/status. Rik -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/