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Running the pmap command on a process in Solaris, I see certain processes have blocks of memory with tags like the following:

dev:337,2 ino=2433431

What do the dev and ino represent? My assumption is device and inode, but that is just a guess. Is there a way to reverse-debug what this memory is?

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These are probably /var/run mmaped files. I just checked and found for example /var/run/tzsync being mmaped by many processes. That particular file allows timezone patches not to require a reboot to be effective.

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How did you determine which file was being mmaped? Is there a way to do a reverse look-up with the device number and inode number? I tried 'find / -inum <ino>', but didn't have any luck. – hddev Dec 6 '11 at 16:31
The tzsync file was reported by pmap, pfiles and find -inum. The latter should find it at least under /proc/<pid>/fd. – jlliagre Dec 7 '11 at 2:22
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