From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:37:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:36:47 -0400 Received: from HSE-MTL-ppp72834.qc.sympatico.ca ([64.229.202.135]:19338 "HELO oscar.casa.dyndns.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:36:46 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Ed Tomlinson Organization: me To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: what is using memory? Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:36:42 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01061023364200.03146@oscar> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have been trying to figure out what is using my memory My box has 320280K >>From boot I see 924 kernel 8224 reserved (initrd ramdisk?) 1488 hash tables (dentry, inode, mount, buffer, page, tcp) from lsmod I caculate 876 for loaded modules from proc/slabinfo 11992 for all slabs from proc/meminfo 17140 buffer 123696 cache 32303 free leaving unaccounted 123627K This is about 38% of my memory, and only about 46% is pageable Is it possible to figure out what is using this? This is with 2.4.6-pre2 with Rik's page_launder_improvements patch, lvm beta7 and some reieserfs patches applied, after about 12 hours of uptime. TIA, Ed Tomlinson