From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 635D36003C1 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:55:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:55:10 -0500 From: Jeff Dike Subject: Re: which fields in /proc/meminfo are orthogonal? Message-ID: <20100127005510.GA8637@c2.user-mode-linux.org> References: <4B5F3C9C.3050908@nortel.com> <4B5F54DE.7030302@nortel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B5F54DE.7030302@nortel.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Chris Friesen Cc: Linux Kernel , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 02:47:26PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > I've tried adding up > MemFree+Buffers+Cached+AnonPages+Mapped+Slab+PageTables+VmallocUsed > > (hugepages are disabled and there is no swap) > > Shortly after boot this gets me within about 3MB of MemTotal. However, > after 1070 minutes there is a 64MB difference between MemTotal and the > above sum. I believe that pages allocated directly with get_free_pages won't show up in your sum. So, just look for someone doing a lot of that :-) Jeff -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org