Hi,

I can run svmon -P <pid of process> to get an idea of how a process is using memory. What I'd like to know is if there's a way for me to find out what's in the private memory for a process.

I have a process that uses more memory than it should and it's probably because it's loading a shared object into private memory. This would be due to another process loading another object with the same name but different version into memory prior to this process. Therefore my process can't use the shared object that's already loaded in memory and instead it loads the object into it's private memory space.

I'd like to find out what file that is but I don't think svmon has that ability. At least I haven't been able to find it in the man pages or the parameters I pass to it.

Any ideas what else I can do?

Thanks,

-P

"What I'd like to know is if there's a way for me to find out what's in the private memory for a process."

If you know the pid then you can map the memory used by a process with:

less /proc/<pid>/maps

whoops - this answer is for Linux. I don't know if it will work on AIX.

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Steve Stites

under user root
$> kdb

lke -l 32

or

lke -l64

I use 'genkld' to see what's loaded in the shared segement and 'genld' to view by process.

If the shared library is being loaded private then either the read-other bit is not set on the shared object or the shared segment is full. On 32 bit AIX operating systems the maximum amount is 256megs fixed for the entire machine.