Re: Memory snapshot

[Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi....

>  We have /proc/[pid]/maps or pmap for displaying the memory  mapping
> for  a particular process.
>  Do we have a way to see the snap shot of what is currently in the
> memory?(a total snapshot!)
>  (say 0x... to 0x... shared library,
> 0x... to 0x... process i, etc..)

Try to observe /dev/mem and /dev/kmem. Probably not something that you 
want, but via these device files you can see the whole memory contents 
and thus observe what's in there.

Another way is using gdb + /proc/kcore + vmlinux (last one is needed as 
symbol file).

regards,

Mulyadi


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