Hi Robert, You can try command pmap pmap <pid> pmap utility displays a formatted listing of a process's memory area. It is bit more readable than the /proc output, but gives same information. Found in the newer versions of procps packages. Thanks and Regards, Prasad. On 3/27/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Daniel Cheng wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > as i understand it, on my x86 system, the full 32-bit address space > > is divided in a 3G/1G split -- the first 3G is for user space, while > > the last 1G is the kernel address space, which consists mainly of > > "logical" addresses that map, via a fixed offset, down to the > > corresponding physical memory. > > > > so how do i interpret the following (first part of) the output from > > the command: > > > > # cat /proc/1/maps > > 001d4000-001d5000 r-xp 001d4000 00:00 0 [vdso] > > 00940000-00959000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 166390 /lib/ld-2.5.so > > 00959000-0095a000 r-xp 00018000 fd:00 166390 /lib/ld-2.5.so > > 0095a000-0095b000 rwxp 00019000 fd:00 166390 /lib/ld-2.5.so > > ... > > > > those start-end addresses are described as "virtual" addresses, but > > they don't fall in the normal kernel address space, which i always > > took to be in the interval [3G-4G). > > > > /lib/ld-2.5.so is a userspace library, this is in the user address space and only *seconds* after i posted this did i realize how silly my question was. duh. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
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