title: What is a proc map?
body: <p>Can anybody tell me what is a proc map? How it is useful and how to check it?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>
  
  <p>Here is one of the proc maps, can someone explain what does it signify?</p>
  
  <pre><code>enter code here
  -bash-3.2# cat /proc/2064/maps
   00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 00:0e 33036189   /tmp/efence/dev.out
   00010000-00011000 rw-p 00000000 00:0e 33036189   /tmp/efence/dev.out
   00011000-00032000 rw-p 00011000 00:00 0          [heap]
   40000000-4001d000 r-xp 00000000 00:0e 32247424   /devel/lib/ld-2.9.so
   4001d000-40020000 rw-p 4001d000 00:00 0 
   40024000-40025000 r--p 0001c000 00:0e 32247424   /devel/lib/ld-2.9.so
   40025000-40026000 rw-p 0001d000 00:0e 32247424   /devel/lib/ld-2.9.so
   40030000-40157000 r-xp 00000000 00:0e 32247431   /devel/lib/libc-2.9.so
   40157000-4015f000 ---p 00127000 00:0e 32247431   /devel/lib/libc-2.9.so
   4015f000-40161000 r--p 00127000 00:0e 32247431   /devel/lib/libc-2.9.so
   40161000-40162000 rw-p 00129000 00:0e 32247431   /devel/lib/libc-2.9.so
   40162000-40165000 rw-p 40162000 00:00 0 
   beb58000-beb6d000 rw-p befeb000 00:00 0          [stack]
  </code></pre>