From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752084AbbCKUKq (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:10:46 -0400 Received: from mondschein.lichtvoll.de ([194.150.191.11]:36879 "EHLO mail.lichtvoll.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751730AbbCKUKp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:10:45 -0400 From: Martin Steigerwald To: Marcos Dione Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcos-david.dione@amadeus.com Subject: Re: committed memory, mmaps and shms Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 21:10:42 +0100 Message-ID: <1698770.Tnkbdtke1D@merkaba> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.2 (Linux/3.19.0-rc7-tp520+; KDE/4.14.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20150311181044.GC14481@diablo.grulicueva.local> References: <20150311181044.GC14481@diablo.grulicueva.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Marcos, Am Mittwoch, 11. März 2015, 19:10:44 schrieb Marcos Dione: > Hi everybody. First, I hope this is the right list for such > questions; I searched in the list of lists[1] for a MM specific one, > but didn't find any. Second, I'm not subscribed, so please CC me and my > other address when answering. Some pointers: http://linux-mm.org/LinuxKernelMailingLists http://linux-mm.org/ > I'm trying to figure out how Linux really accounts for memory, both > globally and for each individual process. Most user's first approach to > memory monitoring is running free (no pun intended): > > $ free > total used free shared buffers > cached Mem: 396895176 395956332 938844 0 8972 > 356409952 -/+ buffers/cache: 39537408 357357768 > Swap: 8385788 8385788 0 free -h is nice here. As to your questions, its late here, I did lots of computer stuff, and there are MM devs that may have better answers as well. Short: I am not in the mood at the moment to think myself into it. But I am interested in answers as well :) Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7