Re: Help about calculating total memory consumption during booting

[PINTU KUMAR <pintu_agarwal@yahoo.com>]

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> From: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
>To: PINTU KUMAR <pintu_agarwal@yahoo.com>; "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>; "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; "mgorman@suse.de" <mgorman@suse.de> 
>Sent: Monday, 30 December 2013 1:55 AM
>Subject: Re: Help about calculating total memory consumption during booting
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>On 29.12.2013 19:17, PINTU KUMAR wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I need help in roughly calculating the total memory consumption in an embedded Linux system just after booting is finished.
>> I know, I can see the memory stats using "free" and "/proc/meminfo"
>> 
>> But, I need the breakup of "Used" memory during bootup, for both kernel space and user application.
>> 
>> Example, on my ARM machine with 128MB RAM, the free memory reported is roughly:
>> Total: 90MB
>> Used: 88MB
>> Free: 2MB
>> Buffer+Cached: (5+19)MB
>> 
>> Now, my question is, how to find the breakup of this "Used" memory of "88MB".
>> This should include both kernel space allocation and user application allocation(including daemons).
>> 
>
>http://www.linuxatemyram.com/ dont panic ;)
>
>How about htop, top or
>"valgrind --tool massif"
>
>



Thanks for the reply, I know about top, but top does not help much in arriving at the total memory consumption.


I need the physical memory usage breakup of each process during bootup, with a segregate of user and kernel allocation.

1) If I add up all "Pss" field in "proc/<PID>/smaps, do I get the total Used memory?
2) Is the Pss value includes the kernel side allocation as well?
3) What fields I should choose from /proc/meminfo" to correctly arrive at the "Used" memory in the system?
4) What about the memory allocation for kernel threads during booting? Why does its Pss/Rss value shows 0 always

I already tried adding up all "PSS" values in every PIDs, but still it does not match any where near to the total used memory in the system.

Please help.

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