Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:43:53 +0800 | From | Wu Fengguang <> | Subject | Re: Memory usage per memory zone |
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Hi jack,
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:41:43AM +0100, jack marrow wrote: > Hello, > > I have a box where the oom-killer is killing processes due to running > out of memory in zone_normal. I can see using slabtop that the inode
How do you know that the memory pressure on zone normal stand out alone?
> caches are using up lots of memory and guess this is the problem, so > have cleared them using an echo to drop_caches.
It would better be backed by concrete numbers...
> > I would quite like to not guess though - is it possible to use slabtop > (or any other way) to view ram usage per zone so I can pick out the > culprit?
/proc/zoneinfo and /proc/vmstat do have some per-zone numbers. Some of them deal with slabs.
Thanks, Fengguang
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