Anonymous memory contents (both private and shared) is stored in two types of images
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''Main article: [[memory dumps]]''.
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Anonymous memory contents (both private and shared) is stored in two types of images:
; Pagemap files
; Pagemap files
: These files contain info about which virtual regions are populated with data. The file is a set of protobuf messages.
: These files contain info about which virtual regions are populated with data. The file is a set of protobuf messages.
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{{Note| Even though, pagemap is an array kind of image(and can be included to the previous type), first pb message is of type pagemap_head and all the following ones are of type pagemap_entry. }}
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{{Note| Even though pagemap is an array kind of image (and can be included to the previous type), first pb message is of type pagemap_head and all the following ones are of type pagemap_entry.}}