A curious user would like to know what anonpages are.

A curious user would like to know what anonpages are.

[Maarten Maathuis]

Recently i noticed an (in my eyes) unexplainable memory loss, I
couldn't trace it a specific process, the slab, buffers or any of the
usual places.

cat /proc/meminfo revealed something called anonpages, which seemed to
be around a 100 MiB large.

I have no idea what they are, searching the mailinglist archives or
using a conventional search engine didn't yield anything usefull.

Can anyone enlighten a curious user?

Sincerely,

Maarten Maathuis.

PS: Please CC me any replies, thank you.

Re: A curious user would like to know what anonpages are.

[Jesper Juhl]

On 22/11/06, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003@gmail.com> wrote:
> Recently i noticed an (in my eyes) unexplainable memory loss, I
> couldn't trace it a specific process, the slab, buffers or any of the
> usual places.
>
> cat /proc/meminfo revealed something called anonpages, which seemed to
> be around a 100 MiB large.
>
> I have no idea what they are, searching the mailinglist archives or
> using a conventional search engine didn't yield anything usefull.
>
> Can anyone enlighten a curious user?
>

Hmm, wouldn't that be "anonymous pages"?  See http://lwn.net/Articles/77106/


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