Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:55:10 -0500 | From | Jeff Dike <> | Subject | Re: which fields in /proc/meminfo are orthogonal? |
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 02:47:26PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > I've tried adding up > MemFree+Buffers+Cached+AnonPages+Mapped+Slab+PageTables+VmallocUsed > > (hugepages are disabled and there is no swap) > > Shortly after boot this gets me within about 3MB of MemTotal. However, > after 1070 minutes there is a 64MB difference between MemTotal and the > above sum.
I believe that pages allocated directly with get_free_pages won't show up in your sum. So, just look for someone doing a lot of that :-)
Jeff
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