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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 18:12:00 +0800
From: =?utf-8?Q?Am=C3=A9rico?= Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Artur Baruchi <mail.baruchi@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Information From Buffers
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On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:27:04PM -0300, Artur Baruchi wrote:
>Hi Guys.
>
>I would like to get more information about how cache/buffers are being
>used by kernel. Is there a way to walk through the buffer_head list
>and get these details ?
>

In /proc/meminfo, there are "Buffers" and "Cached" fields, are they
what you are looking for?