From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: /proc/meminfo
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 10:30:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1116264629.1005.75.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6934efce05051610252b84713f@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 10:25 -0700, Jared Hulbert wrote:
> Please have mercy on a linux-mm newbie. I'd like to understand the
> output of /proc/meminfo and /proc/<[0-9]+>/maps. I want to measure 2
> things: First, how much memory in a system is used for code or other
> readonly file mmaps or what RAM can be saved by using XIP flash.
> Second, at the time a system snapshot is taken how much RAM is
> absolutely needed (for example, I assume we could dump caches, flush
> buffers, and clean up unused memory.)
>
> Where can I find a good reference to what this all output means? Are
> there other sources of information available?
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
-- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-16 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-16 17:25 /proc/meminfo Jared Hulbert
2005-05-16 17:30 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2006-06-05 14:36 /proc/meminfo Abu M. Muttalib
2006-06-06 9:37 ` /proc/meminfo Jes Sorensen
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