From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755174AbZCKKl5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:41:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753958AbZCKKls (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:41:48 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f176.google.com ([209.85.220.176]:41144 "EHLO mail-fx0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753889AbZCKKlr (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:41:47 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=imL5CEw3UEYcIGAKNblCpKKz00eNud0QIYMg2ZxI/E6swfQi6QQWJlIfv/iY8V6MlJ 5V3y4hmMxlHsIhXpfJ/mDyxp1Si1l0RtZdyK35N0rq8wp0HXCOApd8deXh+xTULTUrJZ iLpR+a74KAKzVOnytMnDpIroSfVFDcYC0E9tM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:41:43 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Memory usage per memory zone From: jack marrow To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I have a box where the oom-killer is killing processes due to running out of memory in zone_normal. I can see using slabtop that the inode caches are using up lots of memory and guess this is the problem, so have cleared them using an echo to drop_caches. I would quite like to not guess though - is it possible to use slabtop (or any other way) to view ram usage per zone so I can pick out the culprit? (I am not subscribed to the list, please cc any replies to me.) Thanks a lot. p.s. the kernel traffic link on http://www.tux.org/lkml/ is now a spam site