Re: committed memory, mmaps and shms

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Hi Marcos,

Am Mittwoch, 11. März 2015, 19:10:44 schrieb Marcos Dione:
>     Hi everybody. First, I hope this is the right list for such
> questions;  I searched in the list of lists[1] for a MM specific one,
> but didn't find any. Second, I'm not subscribed, so please CC me and my
> other address when answering.

Some pointers:

http://linux-mm.org/LinuxKernelMailingLists

http://linux-mm.org/

>     I'm trying to figure out how Linux really accounts for memory, both
> globally and for each individual process. Most user's first approach  to
> memory monitoring is running free (no pun intended):
> 
> $ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers    
> cached Mem:     396895176  395956332     938844          0       8972 
> 356409952 -/+ buffers/cache:   39537408  357357768
> Swap:      8385788    8385788          0

free -h is nice here.

As to your questions, its late here, I did lots of computer stuff, and 
there are MM devs that may have better answers as well. Short: I am not in 
the mood at the moment to think myself into it.

But I am interested in answers as well :)

Ciao,
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