From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756996AbYHQTod (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:44:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755099AbYHQTmW (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:42:22 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:56804 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755973AbYHQTmV (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:42:21 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:42:12 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: "Marc Villemade" Cc: "Rik van Riel" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Follow-up] Physical memory disappeared from /proc/meminfo Message-ID: <20080817124212.6048fa71@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20080817145906.06ccd795@riellaptop.surriel.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:26:07 +0200 "Marc Villemade" 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)