The goal of this exercise is to understand the memory footprint resulting from shared libraries.
Make 100 dummy shared libraries, e.g. each with a single function inside,
e.g. foo001(), foo002(), or something similar. Link these all to a
simple standalone main which waits for a bit of input such that you can look
at it with top, pmap, etc. Do you understand what you see? Try the
same test for both 32bit and 64bit.
You probably want to write a small perl, python or shell script to
help you here!