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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: "Artem B. Bityuckiy" <dedekind@oktetlabs.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: any way to find out kernel memory usage?
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:57:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <426FC46C.4070306@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <426FC0FE.2090900@oktetlabs.ru>

Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> Chris Friesen wrote:
>>  Is 
>> there any way to find out how much memory the kernel is using?  I 
>> don't see anything in /proc, but maybe something internal that isn't 
>> currently exported?
>>
> How about /proc/slabinfo ?

Hmm...if I'm reading that correctly, I should be able to get the total 
kernel memory usage by summing up

num_slabs*pagesperslab

for all listed slabs.  Does that sound right?

I assume kmalloc/vmalloc use the "size-x" slabs?


Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-27 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-27 16:38 any way to find out kernel memory usage? Chris Friesen
2005-04-27 16:42 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-27 16:57   ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2005-04-27 17:20     ` Robert Love
2005-04-27 17:44       ` Chris Friesen
2005-04-27 17:47         ` Robert Love
2005-04-27 22:23           ` Mark Lord
2005-04-27 18:07 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-04-27 18:29   ` Richard B. Johnson

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