For all I know mm_struct has a list of vm_areas that means regions of virtual memory (not physical memory). Each region can be a stack, text(code), data and so on. mm_struct doesn't show directly the the size of stack, text(code), data in physical memory. How can I get it? Mauricio Lin/Allan Bezerra INdT Linux Lab -----Original Message----- From: ext Daniele Bellucci [mailto:bellucda@tiscali.it] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:00 PM To: Bezerra Allan (EXT-INdT/Manaus) Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Subject: Re: Physical memory size allocated for each process! On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:19:36AM -0400, Allan.Bezerra@indt.org.br wrote: |Hi all, | |I was trying to get the stack, heap, data and code size separately allocated in physical memory but I did not manage to get them from /proc. | |I took a look the linux kernel source 2.6, but I did not discover any variables or structures about stack, heap, data and code size allocated in physical memory. | |I just found those information allocated in virtual memory. | |Please, could anybody help me? as i said before, look at the "struct mm_struct " -- Daniele. "I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place." Richard Stallman -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/