Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:22:50 +0900
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc7: memory leak?
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Hi

> > > Should all this cache usage not be counted towards the
> > > 'Cached' entry in meminfo rather then getting counted as part of used
> > > ram. 
> > 
> > Cached is only the page-cache, not all the other caches we have..
> > This someones confuses people, but one gets used to it. slabinfo allows
> > one to easily view others.
> 
> So what would I have to do to find out the real amount of memory free?
> Would that be the MemFree field in /proc/meminfo plus, from
> /proc/slabinfo, *_cache and size-*?

SReclaimable field can't fill requilrement? :)


-kosaki


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