Re: any way to find out kernel memory usage?

Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-27T16:42:41Z

Chris Friesen wrote:
> One idea we had to prevent this in the future is to configure the OOM
> killer to reset the system if the kernel uses more than a certain amount
> of memory. (Reset is better than hang for our purposes.) 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 ?

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