Hi Carl, Your problem can be solved by setting the watchpoints on the memory area. There is a tool Dynamic Probes/Kernel Probes using which you can set watchpoints on the memory area and dump the required information. For more information visit this site : http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/linux/projects/dprobes/ http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/linux/projects/kprobes/ Hope this helps to solve your problem. Feel free to contact me, if you need more information. -- Regards Prasanna S Panchamukhi Linux Technology Center India Software Labs, IBM Bangalore Ph: 91-80-5044636 --------------------------- Use http://oss.sgi.com/ecartis to modify your settings or to unsubscribe.