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Mar
7
asked How to write a file at various offsets to a filesystem partition with dd command
Mar
7
asked What happened to my ext3 partition
Mar
6
comment Writing command synopsis in standard man format
Actually one of them is mandatory.
Mar
6
revised Writing command synopsis in standard man format
added 25 characters in body
Mar
5
asked Writing command synopsis in standard man format
Mar
5
comment Getting information about a process' memory usage from /proc/pid/smaps
Thanks Mat, this is awesome.
Mar
5
accepted Getting information about a process' memory usage from /proc/pid/smaps
Mar
4
comment Getting information about a process' memory usage from /proc/pid/smaps
Thanks for the great answer. Appreciate it. I read the LWM article and that inspired me ask few more questions, so I added them to my question above.
Mar
4
revised Getting information about a process' memory usage from /proc/pid/smaps
Added a question about PSS and USS
Mar
4
comment How do I read from /proc/$pid/mem under Linux?
You are right. Please check this article. trilithium.com/johan/2005/08/linux-gate Here the author is using dd to read from /proc/self/mem. I have asked him how was he able to accomplish that?
Mar
4
asked Getting information about a process' memory usage from /proc/pid/smaps
Mar
4
comment How do I read from /proc/$pid/mem under Linux?
Or you can just use dd to read from /proc/pid/mem
Mar
1
asked Memory profiling the linux kernel on an embedded device
Mar
1
accepted Mathematical connection between SZ RSS and VSZ in ps o/p?
Mar
1
comment Mathematical connection between SZ RSS and VSZ in ps o/p?
Thanks for the great answer. Any idea how %mem is related to rss and sz/vsz?
Feb
25
comment Testing ext3 filesystem on embedded device
@ChrisDown Both actually.
Feb
25
comment Testing ext3 filesystem on embedded device
@ChrisDown But that's not good enough!
Feb
24
asked Testing ext3 filesystem on embedded device
Feb
23
asked Mathematical connection between SZ RSS and VSZ in ps o/p?
Feb
10
asked Embedded device: How to do raw reads and write to flash (emmc/movinand) bypassing file system cache