From: Jeff Angielski <jangiels@speakeasy.net>
To: "Smith, Craig" <Craig.Smith@icn.siemens.com>
Cc: LinuxPPC <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Dynamic lib loading & memory question
Date: 24 Jun 2004 19:28:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088119724.4208.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EA78B62757AF1E4799828249310AC4CA04E09F03@stca206a.bus.sc.rolm.com>
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 17:58, Smith, Craig wrote:
> Memory: 14112k available (1564k kernel code, 436k data, 68k init, 0k
> highmem)
<snip>
> ########################################
> root@raptorlinux->~ [2] cat /proc/meminfo
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 14520320 4505600 10014720 0 0 2531328
> Swap: 0 0 0
> MemTotal: 14180 kB
> MemFree: 9780 kB
> MemShared: 0 kB
> Buffers: 0 kB
> Cached: 2472 kB
> SwapCached: 0 kB
> Active: 1088 kB
> Inactive: 1792 kB
> HighTotal: 0 kB
> HighFree: 0 kB
> LowTotal: 14180 kB
> LowFree: 9780 kB
> SwapTotal: 0 kB
> SwapFree: 0 kB
>
> Question: Why the total (and "available" value at startup) indicates
> ~14M...why doesn't it say 16M (and what is the ~2.5M "cached" value). Thanks
> again in advance.
The memory line from the boot sequence tells you why total is not 16MB.
The kernel is already using it... :)
You can find the answer to your cached question if you look at the code
from fs/proc/proc_misc.c
Jeff Angielski
The PTR Group
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-24 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-24 21:58 Dynamic lib loading & memory question Smith, Craig
2004-06-24 22:39 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-06-24 23:28 ` Jeff Angielski [this message]
2004-06-25 16:44 ` Joakim Tjernlund
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