From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 04:24:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 04:24:17 -0400 Received: from turnover.lancs.ac.uk ([148.88.17.220]:47868 "EHLO helium.chromatix.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 04:24:06 -0400 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <01061023364200.03146@oscar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 09:20:58 +0100 To: Ed Tomlinson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jonathan Morton Subject: Re: what is using memory? Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >My box has > >320280K > >from proc/meminfo > > 17140 buffer >123696 cache > 32303 free > >leaving unaccounted > >123627K This is your processes' memory, the inode and dentry caches, and possibly some extra kernel memory which may be allocated after boot time. It is *very* much accounted for. -------------------------------------------------------------- from: Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton mail: chromi@cyberspace.org (not for attachments) The key to knowledge is not to rely on people to teach you it. GCS$/E/S dpu(!) s:- a20 C+++ UL++ P L+++ E W+ N- o? K? w--- O-- M++$ V? PS PE- Y+ PGP++ t- 5- X- R !tv b++ DI+++ D G e+ h+ r++ y+(*)