hi to all .
Can anyone tell me that how to get information about stack, allocated by kernel to a running process ?

for this ,is there any api function,any system call is available in ubuntu 8.04 ?


i've tried following command

man getrlimit but there no manual entry for this.

i'm using ubuntu 8.04.
thanks in advance.

The command
ulimit -s
tells you how much address space is allocated for each process's primary stack. The result is given in KB.

For a specific process that is already running, you might attach a debugger to it to see the current stack use.

You could also use the command
grep -A 1 stack /proc/pid/smaps

replacing pid with the pid of the process you want.

I think that tells you either how much stack space has actually been used (rounded up to a multiple of 4KB) or a minimum value if very little stack has been used.

If you need more detail for small stack use, change the 1 in that command to 2 and look at the Rss value. For a fairly new process with low stack use on a system that isn't under serious memory load, the Rss value should be the true stack usage rounded up to 4KB multiple, while Size would be the minimum initial mapping.

I only tried that last command on a 64 bit Centos 5 and only on a few processes. So it might need some details changed to handle other distributions.

Just giving an example let me know if I am getting it right

ps -eaf | grep firefox

root 2255 1935 0 15:58 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.13/firefox

top -p 2255

Tasks: 1 total, 0 running, 1 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 2.2%us, 2.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 95.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3344308k total, 1043640k used, 2300668k free, 208524k buffers
Swap: 3999740k total, 0k used, 3999740k free, 516932k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2255 root 20 0 1896 512 440 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 firefox

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