On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 12:24:52 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > > hm, not a lot to go on there. > > We have quite a lot of instrumentation for memory consumption - were > you able to work out where it went by comparing /proc/meminfo, > /proc/slabinfo, `echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger', etc? > The redhat entry contains all the info, and I've compared meminfo and slabinfo without finding anything even close to the chunks of lost memory. I've attached the sysrq memory stats from 2.6.26 and 2.6.27. The only difference though is in the reported free pages I'm not very familiar with all the instrumentation, so pointers are very welcome. > Is the memory missing on initial boot up, or does it take some time for > the problem to become evident? > Initial boot as far as I can tell. Rgds -- -- Pierre Ossman WARNING: This correspondence is being monitored by the Swedish government. Make sure your server uses encryption for SMTP traffic and consider using PGP for end-to-end encryption.