From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 21so564373eyc.44 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:55:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:55:56 -0800 From: "Tim Pepper" Subject: Re: linux memory mgmt system question In-Reply-To: <396532.97722.qm@web56504.mail.re3.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <396532.97722.qm@web56504.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: cciontu@yahoo.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Catalin CIONTU 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 -- 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