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Looking for /procfs documentation, describing values and units of measurement
Surprisingly, comprehensive documentation for /procfs is hard to find.
For my specific question, I am looking at: cat /proc/1/statm (let's use pid=1 because it seems to be always there). I just ran ...
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Is there a way to read memory of a process belonging to the same user? [duplicate]
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How do I read from /proc/$pid/mem under Linux?
I'm trying to read /proc/$pid/mem file. It's another process run by the same user. File permissions seems to be ...
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Process VSS and Size: entry in /proc/pid/smaps
I was wondering why the sum of all 'Size:' entries in /proc/pid/smaps does not equal the process VSS as reported by top, ps, /proc/pid/status VmSize, /proc/pid/statm 1st entry?
Any clues?
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Connecting various process attributes reported by top, ps, /proc/pid/statm, /proc/pid/status, /proc/pid/smaps [closed]
Here are some of the common attributes I figured out:
top(VIRT) , smem(VSS), /proc/pid/statm (1st entry in pages), /proc/pid/status (VmSize), ps(VSZ)
top(RES) , smem(RSS), /proc/pid/statm (2nd entry ...
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Read the stack of another process?
I'm trying to read a child process's stack but with no luck.
I know it is possible using ptrace, but ptrace's interface allows you to read only one word at a time, and I'm trying to scan a larger ...
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How do I read from /proc/$pid/mem under Linux?
The Linux proc(5) man page tells me that /proc/$pid/mem “can be used to access the pages of a process's memory”. But a straightforward attempt to use it only gives me
$ cat /proc/$$/mem ...
