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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:59:06 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: "Marc Villemade" <mastachand@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Follow-up] Physical memory disappeared from /proc/meminfo
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:59:10 +0200
"Marc Villemade" <mastachand@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm having exactly the same issue but on a 2.6.20.4 vanilla kernel
> (x86). /proc/meminfo shows that
> MemFree+Buffers+cached+AnonPages+Slab+Mapped != MemTotal, which AFAIK
> should be the case.

There are also page tables, vmalloc memory and various
unaccounted kernel allocations.

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