From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 562106B009A for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:09:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B5F3C9C.3050908@nortel.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:03:56 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: which fields in /proc/meminfo are orthogonal? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linux Kernel , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi, We have a system (2.6.27 based) which seems to be increasing its memory consumption by several MB an hour. Summing up Pss for all maps in all processes doesn't seem to explain it, so I'm looking at the kernel. I've backported the kmemleak functionality. It's self-test module shows leaks so I know it's working, but it doesn't report any leaks that would correspond to the memory increase. I'm currently trying to figure out which of the entries in /proc/meminfo are actually orthogonal to each other. Ideally I'd like to be able to add up the suitable entries and have it work out to the total memory on the system, so that I can then narrow down exactly where the memory is going. Is this feasable? I'll keep reading the code but if anyone happens to know this already I'd appreciate some assistance. Thanks, Chris -- 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