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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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  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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