From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "Marc Villemade" <mastachand@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rik van Riel" <riel@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Follow-up] Physical memory disappeared from /proc/meminfo
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:42:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080817124212.6048fa71@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f2b895370808171226l13728b1dg7e79051c158e21f3@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:26:07 +0200
"Marc Villemade" <mastachand@gmail.com> wrote:
> hey
>
> Thanks for your answer, but it still doesn't come close. I'm up to 1.5
> Gig adding what i said. and PageTables + VMallocTotal equals 160 Mo.
> Sounds unlikely to me that something unaccounted for might go up to
> 1.4 Gig, don't you think ? Or maybe it is accounted somewhere else
> than /proc/meminfo ? Please point me to the right place if so.
>
you're not accidentally using shmfs or tmpfs are you ?
(or otherwise have a leak in sysv shm)
you can use the "ipcs" command to see your shm allocation
(and for tmpfs/shmfs... check if you have it mounted anywhere.
Something like /dev being on shmfs and /dev/null being a file not a
device can.. totally screw you over)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-17 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-17 17:59 Marc Villemade
2008-08-17 18:59 ` Rik van Riel
2008-08-17 19:26 ` Marc Villemade
2008-08-17 19:42 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-08-17 20:22 ` Marc Villemade
2008-08-18 6:09 ` Andi Kleen
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