From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Ed Tomlinson Subject: Re: what is using memory? Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 07:37:46 -0400 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01061107374601.06951@oscar> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jonathan Morton , Ed Tomlinson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/