From: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
To: Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>,
Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@CAM.ORG>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: what is using memory?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 07:37:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01061107374601.06951@oscar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l03130300b74a2f8d4db6@[192.168.239.105]>
On Monday 11 June 2001 04:20, Jonathan Morton wrote:
> >My box has
> >
> >320280K
> >
> >from proc/meminfo
> >
> > 17140 buffer
> >123696 cache
> > 32303 free
> >
> >leaving unaccounted
> >
> >123627K
>
> This is your processes' memory, the inode and dentry caches, and possibly
> some extra kernel memory which may be allocated after boot time. It is
> *very* much accounted for.
No its not. For instance the slab caches encompass the inode and dentry
caches. Point I was/am tring to make is not that this memory is lost or
not need, but that is it _not_ accounted. ie. There is not way to tell
what is using it, hense we cannot see leaks or places that could be
optimized.
I have attempted to count all memory I could. The 123M is what is left in
the kernel overhead bucket...
Ed Tomlinson
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-11 3:36 Ed Tomlinson
2001-06-11 8:20 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-11 11:37 ` Ed Tomlinson [this message]
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