From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:15:57 -0800 (PST) From: Catalin CIONTU Reply-To: cciontu@yahoo.com Subject: linux memory mgmt system question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <396532.97722.qm@web56504.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > Hi, > > 1. Firstly, we want to know if 'free' is the best > tool that could give us the most accurate numbers with re to > used/free memory and swap. If not, what would be that tool > we could rely on? > 2. Are there any exceptions that may "fool" free > utility (inaccurate numbers would be returned), that we > would need to be aware of? For example, could things like > huge TLB pages being enabled have an impact on the numbers > reported by free utility? > > Could you please advise? Thanks a lot. > > > Regards, > catalin. -- 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