From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756524AbYKTO0S (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:26:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752298AbYKTOYM (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:24:12 -0500 Received: from web56502.mail.re3.yahoo.com ([66.196.97.31]:45141 "HELO web56502.mail.re3.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756043AbYKTOYK (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:24:10 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 400 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:24:09 EST DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=G39YcHILDbi/X0eb3zDR4V17zrh6bclBlLBwSWU68oGs5ZxypoJzL3kSoqTo7v+FL487KaqOowgZP//WvcdxHFuUwIx3Ve0ESxqaVMSRR20m7lLLksUJjOzmloIF2Ia82tQStD0nnDU8jY+w8Z2YbEJJnPEWPahbwxmtOediOig=; X-YMail-OSG: hzdD6UoVM1mK.yUkmPafKuV82ew_qebg_X6VMGth2_GDV0VNjCy.Q1jiRdOqC8ZVHJ5gYC3RN.A0lnmlr24dGoQ061Fd0xlMpmN4fRhp1Ysdwb88JNJkHeAO.drQj8.oDFfatwap5TVxQVwLgWy9MBq35IBEUrj8mrfiySA- X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:17:29 -0800 (PST) From: Catalin CIONTU Reply-To: cciontu@yahoo.com Subject: linux memory mgmt system question To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <185639.19857.qm@web56502.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Hi, > > 1. Firstly, we want to know if 'free' is the best > tool that could give us the most accurate numbers with re to > used/free memory and swap. If not, what would be that tool > we could rely on? > 2. Are there any exceptions that may "fool" free > utility (inaccurate numbers would be returned), that we > would need to be aware of? For example, could things like > huge TLB pages being enabled have an impact on the numbers > reported by free utility? > > Could you please advise? Thanks a lot. > > > Regards, > catalin.