process map is tool to visualize the virtual memory of a process. Thread activity is drawn as small dots jumping around on the map (at the instructions they’re executing). The map also shows public symbols from binaries and shared libraries.
The tool is meant to give students an easier and intuitive idea of what a process is. It isn’t a profiler or any other serious debugging tool. It doesn’t measure where CPU time is spend (a flame chart will do a much better job). It just looks at each threads instruction pointer every so often and plots that on the map. The visualization doesn’t show if the threads are actually doing work
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/arkanis/process-map
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Developer: Stephan Soller
License: MIT License
process-map is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| Process Memory Tools | |
|---|---|
| ps_mem | Accurately reports memory usage of programs |
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| psrecord | Record the CPU and memory activity of a process |
| smem2 | Reports on memory usage on Linux systems |
| process-mem | Display memory used by processes |
| process-map | Visualize the virtual memory of a process |
| Smemstat | Reports the physical memory usage |
| mstat | Measure memory usage of a program over time |
| alram | Helps when available memory is below threshold, with optional task killer |
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