From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 07:38:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 07:38:02 -0400 Received: from HSE-MTL-ppp72834.qc.sympatico.ca ([64.229.202.135]:8076 "HELO oscar.casa.dyndns.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 07:37:49 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Ed Tomlinson Organization: me To: Jonathan Morton , Ed Tomlinson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what is using memory? Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 07:37:46 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01061107374601.06951@oscar> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 11 June 2001 04:20, Jonathan Morton wrote: > >My box has > > > >320280K > > > >from proc/meminfo > > > > 17140 buffer > >123696 cache > > 32303 free > > > >leaving unaccounted > > > >123627K > > This is your processes' memory, the inode and dentry caches, and possibly > some extra kernel memory which may be allocated after boot time. It is > *very* much accounted for. No its not. For instance the slab caches encompass the inode and dentry caches. Point I was/am tring to make is not that this memory is lost or not need, but that is it _not_ accounted. ie. There is not way to tell what is using it, hense we cannot see leaks or places that could be optimized. I have attempted to count all memory I could. The 123M is what is left in the kernel overhead bucket... Ed Tomlinson