understanding pmap

[ESGLinux]

Hi again,

2010/3/9 Yong Huang <yong321 at yahoo.com>

> > Linux server 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Feb 16 17:17:21 EST 2007
>  i686
> > i386 GNU/Linux
> ...
> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
>
> That version doesn't have /proc/<pid>/smaps.
>

what a pity :-(




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> > How can I detect the memory leak looking at this?
>
> If a process's virtual memory size keeps increasing and never decreases (or
> sometimes decreases a little), you can call it a memory leak. When you talk
> to the developer, you can even find out which segment of the virtual memory
> is increasing.
>
>
I think I have this problem, but I don´t know where...




> > How can I know where is the memory?
>
> What do you mean? The second column of your `pmap -d <pid>' is the memory
> size and the last column is the file this memory segment maps to, or not
> mapped to any file if it says anon (anonymous). A competent developer may
> use info in other columns such as the address to debug and find out which
> heap in his code the shown anon segment corresponds to.
>
>
My problem is that the memory I think I have the problem is marked as
anonymous, so I don´t know how to traslate to a human readable info...

Thanks for your answer

ESG


> Yong Huang
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