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Re: Memory Management in Linux



Check if any of programs in 'Memory debugging' suits you at:

 http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialSoftwareDevelopment.html


Good luck!


El vie, 05-11-2004 a las 19:37 +0100, Silvan Villiger escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone give me a link to a guide which introduces into memory
> management?
> 
> I need to understand expressions like "rss", "sz", "shared memory",
> "memory leak", "core image of a process", "data section", "kernel
> stack", "virtual size".
> 
> I've googled a lot and have red the man page of ps. But it seems as most 
> of the information out there expects me to know the basic stuff above. I 
> only found this picture: 
> http://www.phptr.com/content/images/chap3_0131429647/elementLinks/03fig01.jpg 
> and an explanation to it, so you can expect me to understand these 
> things, but nothing more.
> My goal is to write a script to monitor the memory-usage of a program 
> and to detect memory-leaks using the ps-command. How would you detect 
> memory leaks with it?
> 
> Greetings...     Silvan
> 
> 
-- 
diego <ddc_prueba@yahoo.es>



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