Level: Introductory

George Cross (george.cross@excite.com), Senior Software Developer, Business Objects Americas

06 May 2008

Learn about shared library mechanisms and memory footprints on IBM® AIX®. This article is essential for developers writing server code or administrators managing production AIX systems. It offers developers and administrators commands and techniques, and gives the understanding necessary to analyze memory requirements of server processes on AIX. It also helps developers and administrators avoid resource shortages that can't be identified with other standard runtime analysis tools such as ps or topas. The article is intended for systems administrators or developers of native applications on AIX.

Introduction

This article examines how shared libraries occupy memory on 32-bit AIX 5L™ (5.3), demonstrating the following commands:

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