Re: any way to find out kernel memory usage?

Chris Friesen
2005-04-27T16:57:33Z

Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> Chris Friesen wrote:
>> Is
>> there any way to find out how much memory the kernel is using? I
>> don't see anything in /proc, but maybe something internal that isn't
>> currently exported?
>>
> How about /proc/slabinfo ?

Hmm...if I'm reading that correctly, I should be able to get the total
kernel memory usage by summing up

num_slabs*pagesperslab

for all listed slabs. Does that sound right?

I assume kmalloc/vmalloc use the "size-x" slabs?

Chris