From: "Tim Pepper" <lnxninja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: cciontu@yahoo.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: linux memory mgmt system question
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:55:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eada2a070811211155r2fc18014o6f2f9e7e8105c66b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <396532.97722.qm@web56504.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Catalin CIONTU <cciontu@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 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.
There is a lot of room for confusion and being fooled into wrong
conclusions in this space. As per Christoph, it would be
interesting/helpful to know more about what you're trying to figure
out.
You might want to have a look at this wiki faq (and some of the other
pages on that wiki):
http://linux-mm.org/Low_On_Memory
Tim
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-21 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-20 14:15 Catalin CIONTU
2008-11-21 16:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-21 20:09 ` Catalin CIONTU
2008-11-21 20:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-11-21 19:55 ` Tim Pepper [this message]
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