Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2993429AbXEBQKp (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 12:10:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2993436AbXEBQKp (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 12:10:45 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:47977 "EHLO holomorphy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993429AbXEBQKo (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 12:10:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 09:11:17 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andi Kleen Cc: Christian Schmidt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Memory consumption on linux Message-ID: <20070502161117.GW19966@holomorphy.com> References: <4637958F.5010405@digadd.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 640 Lines: 17 Christian Schmidt writes: >> Global cache is easy to understand - file system / inode caches. What >> exactly is buffers, though? On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:25:29PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > http://www.halobates.de/memorywaste.pdf and http://www.halobates.de/memory.pdf > give some overview of in kernel memory users. Very interesting. This is a veritable TODO list. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/