From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Marc Villemade" <mastachand@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Follow-up] Physical memory disappeared from /proc/meminfo
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:09:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87od3q26t4.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f2b895370808171059x4bd0296frf50b07ae7af21375@mail.gmail.com> (Marc Villemade's message of "Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:59:10 +0200")
"Marc Villemade" <mastachand@gmail.com> writes:
>
> I'm having exactly the same issue but on a 2.6.20.4 vanilla kernel
> (x86). /proc/meminfo shows that
> MemFree+Buffers+cached+AnonPages+Slab+Mapped != MemTotal, which AFAIK
> should be the case.
Nope, the equation is not necessarily true.
See http://halobates.de/memorywaste.pdf for a detailed discussion.
-Andi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-18 6:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-17 17:59 [Follow-up] Physical memory disappeared from /proc/meminfo Marc Villemade
2008-08-17 18:59 ` Rik van Riel
2008-08-17 19:26 ` Marc Villemade
2008-08-17 19:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-17 20:22 ` Marc Villemade
2008-08-18 6:09 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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