Memory allocations in linux for processes

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Wed Mar 20 15:07:19 EDT 2013


On 3/19/13, Niroj Pokhrel <nirojpokhrel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mulyadi .
> Thank you very much.... But I still have a minor confusion .........
> All I ran was this short program
>
> #include<stdio.h>
> int main()
> {
>     while(1)
>     {
>     }
>     return 0;
> }

well, before your program is loaded, certainly one or more memory
region must be allocated in RAM, right? if not, where will it be
stored ?

Like Valdis said, strace utility could help you understanding things
during the binary execution. You'll see lots of mmap, I promise :)

-- 
regards,

Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant

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