[NTLUG:Discuss] Process memory

[brian@pongonova.net]

How about /proc/PID/status?  That also appears to provide memory info (at least on
my system).  FWIW, I'm unable to cat/less my mem entry under the PID (this is on a
2.2.x kernel).

  --Brian

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:16:10AM -0500, George Lass wrote:
> I guess my kernel is too old to support the "mem" pseudo file
> (I am forced to use RedHat 5.2 with a 2.0.36 kernel due to the
> vendor software in question).  If I try to "cat", "dd", or "od"
> /proc/518/mem I get an error saying:
> 
> mem: No such process
> 
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> George
> 
> Steve Baker wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
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