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From: "Artem B. Bityuckiy" <dedekind@oktetlabs.ru>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: any way to find out kernel memory usage?
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:42:38 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <426FC0FE.2090900@oktetlabs.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <426FBFED.9090409@nortel.com>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-27 16:42 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 [this message]
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
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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