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To: Christian Schmidt <lkml@digadd.de>
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Subject: Re: Memory consumption on linux
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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: 02 May 2007 14:25:29 +0200
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Christian Schmidt <lkml@digadd.de> writes:

> Global cache is easy to understand - file system / inode caches. What
> exactly is buffers, though?

http://www.halobates.de/memorywaste.pdf and http://www.halobates.de/memory.pdf
give some overview of in kernel memory users.

-Andi