Obtaining a Process Virtual Memory Map from a DMP File

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Is anyone aware of a utility that can display a process' virtual address space usage from a DMP file for that process?

For example, if the process were currently executing, you would obtain this information using VirtualQueryEx - you could walk the entire virtual address space of the process and detmerine how it was using memory.

I would like to be able to do that from the contents of the DMP file.

Any ideas or utilities known to do this?

Posted 3-Feb-11 7:37am

Blake Miller

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Thanks for the links Kythen.

I think I will have the custom dump file generator collect the information and add that to a user stream in the DMP file.

Posted 3-Aug-11 11:52am

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Kythen · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-03T08:20:00

Well, you can definitely open up the .dmp file in WinDbg (or possibly Visual Studio) and examine the process memory.

You can see the RVA and contents of the pages in a full dump, but I'm not sure you can get much information about the memory pages themselves. According to a couple of pages I found on Google, the .dmp file format doesn't appear to store that type of information.

See http://computer.forensikblog.de/en/2006/03/dmp_file_structure.html[^] and http://computer.forensikblog.de/en/2008/02/64bit_crash_dumps.html[^]