Rene Bartsch: > r...@www:~# pmap 23976 pmap is a command that originates from Solaris, but that is also available on Linux (except that the Linux version is very light on documentation).
> 23976: smtpd -n <myip>:smtp -t inet -u -o stress ... > 00007f2936d45000 36K r-x-- /lib/libcrypt-2.9.so > 00007f2936d4e000 2044K ----- /lib/libcrypt-2.9.so > 00007f2936f4d000 4K r---- /lib/libcrypt-2.9.so This memory contains code and constants. It is shared read-only, and it is backed by sections in the shared object file. This memory is never written to swap file. Instead it is paged in from the shared object file as needed. > 00007f2936f4e000 4K rw--- /lib/libcrypt-2.9.so This memory is initialized from the shared object file, but any changes to this memory are not shared. If the system runs low on memory, this would be written to swap file. > 00007f2936f4f000 184K rw--- [ anon ] This memory is is not shared, and it is backed by swap space. Wietse