Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:55:16 +0100 | | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | | Subject | Re: A curious user would like to know what anonpages are. |
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On 22/11/06, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003@gmail.com> wrote: > Recently i noticed an (in my eyes) unexplainable memory loss, I > couldn't trace it a specific process, the slab, buffers or any of the > usual places. > > cat /proc/meminfo revealed something called anonpages, which seemed to > be around a 100 MiB large. > > I have no idea what they are, searching the mailinglist archives or > using a conventional search engine didn't yield anything usefull. > > Can anyone enlighten a curious user? >
Hmm, wouldn't that be "anonymous pages"? See http://lwn.net/Articles/77106/
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