From: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
To: Ricardo Jose Pfitscher <ricardo.pfitscher@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: How much memory kernel uses
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:11:46 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130410161144.GA25394@optiplex.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABA9-+oTDAOTFYbxeqkXGv1YN4eC-uj86hCihPbS8w-xpJCAxg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 10:07:37PM -0300, Ricardo Jose Pfitscher wrote:
> Hello guys,
> I need help with memory management, i have a question: Is there a way
> to find out how much memory is being used by the kernel (preferably
> form userspace)?
> Anything like /proc/meminfo....
> Thank you,
> --
> Ricardo Jose Pfitscher
Take a glance at http://www.halobates.de/memorywaste.pdf as a start-point to
understand where the kernel is potentially using memory (the doc is old, and
things might have changed a bit since its publication, but it stills valid as a
study reference). Also, this userland tool might come handy to your studies:
http://www.selenic.com/smem/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-10 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-10 1:07 How much memory kernel uses Ricardo Jose Pfitscher
2013-04-10 9:41 ` Jerry
2013-04-10 16:11 ` Rafael Aquini [this message]
2013-04-11 11:28 ` Ricardo Jose Pfitscher
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