From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx149.postini.com [74.125.245.149]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F01E6B003C for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:11:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:11:46 -0300 From: Rafael Aquini Subject: Re: How much memory kernel uses Message-ID: <20130410161144.GA25394@optiplex.redhat.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ricardo Jose Pfitscher Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org 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/ -- 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