From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: "Artem B. Bityuckiy" <dedekind@oktetlabs.ru>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: any way to find out kernel memory usage?
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:47:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1114624035.10836.19.camel@betsy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <426FCF7B.5020806@nortel.com>
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 11:44 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Okay, so can I get the total amount of memory used by the kernel based
> on meminfo output? (Slab + VmallocUsed) maybe?
I don't think that will include page tables, unless the architecture
allocates page tables from slab (some might, especially recently).
And it won't have memory that didn't come from slab, e.g.
get_free_pages() or anything else right off the buddy allocator.
There is no easy way to do this. To do it right, we'd need fine-grained
accounting.
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-27 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-27 16:38 any way to find out kernel memory usage? Chris Friesen
2005-04-27 16:42 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-27 16:57 ` Chris Friesen
2005-04-27 17:20 ` Robert Love
2005-04-27 17:44 ` Chris Friesen
2005-04-27 17:47 ` Robert Love [this message]
2005-04-27 22:23 ` Mark Lord
2005-04-27 18:07 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-04-27 18:29 ` Richard B. Johnson
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