Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Ed Tomlinson <> | | Subject | Re: what is using memory? | | Date | Mon, 11 Jun 2001 07:37:46 -0400 |
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On Monday 11 June 2001 04:20, Jonathan Morton wrote: > >My box has > > > >320280K > > > >from proc/meminfo > > > > 17140 buffer > >123696 cache > > 32303 free > > > >leaving unaccounted > > > >123627K > > This is your processes' memory, the inode and dentry caches, and possibly > some extra kernel memory which may be allocated after boot time. It is > *very* much accounted for.
No its not. For instance the slab caches encompass the inode and dentry caches. Point I was/am tring to make is not that this memory is lost or not need, but that is it _not_ accounted. ie. There is not way to tell what is using it, hense we cannot see leaks or places that could be optimized.
I have attempted to count all memory I could. The 123M is what is left in the kernel overhead bucket...
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