On Tuesday 01 May 2007 22:31, Christian Schmidt wrote: > And, how does process memory relate to system memory? Usually the sum > of the resident memory (ps -o rss) is way off from the used memory > displayed by free.
RSS has all the shared pages in it too. > where you can see discrepancies in either direction, in one case 2G > more free than resident, in the other case 60M less. > Is there a way to get more detailed information on process and kernel > memory usage? I assume that dm-crypto and software-raid use memory > that does not show up anywhere. Slab in /proc/meminfo, I guess. Lots of other values there too.The command slabtop -s c too. > dynamips and vmware both mmap() the ram of the emulated machines > (dynamips emulates cisco routers). Still, obviously the majority of > the resident memory is "free", or rather "cached". mmap() with a backing file is probably counted as "cached". mmap and brk() without backing files would probably be AnonPages in /proc/meminfo... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
