[NTLUG:Discuss] Process memory

[Steve Baker]

George Lass wrote:
> I have a vendor supplied API process that is eating up memory
> on my PC and am wanting to know if there is a safe and somewhat
> easy way to "look" at its memory without stopping the
> process or causing it to core dump.

Check out /proc/{process_id}/mem - that "file" is actually hooked up
to a kernel device driver that returns you the memory space of the
process indicated in the filename.