From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g42IpbwJ013341 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 11:51:37 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g42IpaRm013340 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 2 May 2002 11:51:36 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from real.realitydiluted.com (real.realitydiluted.com [208.242.241.164]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g42IpTwJ013337 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 11:51:30 -0700 Received: from dsl73.cedar-rapids.net ([208.242.241.39] helo=cotw.com) by real.realitydiluted.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 173Lgm-0008Pi-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2002 13:52:24 -0500 Message-ID: <3CD19872.63FBF81E@cotw.com> Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 14:50:10 -0500 From: Scott A McConnell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.17-xfs i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "MIPS/Linux List (SGI)" Subject: Accounting for all memory. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk I am trying to understand memory usage on my system. NEC VR5432, mipsel, 2.4.5 kernel Does slab info appear in "used:" column of /proc/meminfo? What the holes "??????" in /proc/iomem are used for? I can not account for all of the "1268k reserved memory. Thanks in advance, Scott ----------------------------------------------------------------------- <4>Memory: 4876k/6144k available (801k kernel code, 1268k reserved, 69k data, 60k init) ... <4>Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed ----------------------------------------------------------------------- /proc # cat iomem 00000000-005fffff : System RAM 00000000-00000fff : ??????????? 4096 (added by hand) 00001000-000ca687 : Kernel code 824968 000ca688-000db99f : ??????????? 70424 (added by hand) 000db9a0-000ed033 : Kernel data 71316 ------ 970804 /proc # cat meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 5046272 1392640 3653632 0 16384 598016 Swap: 0 0 0 MemTotal: 4928 kB MemFree: 3568 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 16 kB Cached: 584 kB Active: 600 kB Inact_dirty: 0 kB Inact_clean: 0 kB Inact_target: 12 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 4928 kB LowFree: 3568 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB 6291456 (6 MB allocated to kernel in prom.c) - 5046272 (Total memory in use) --------- 1245184 1245184 - 970804(Kernel memory) = 274380 I can not account for this memory. -- Scott A. McConnell