Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753835AbYCIK1A (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Mar 2008 06:27:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751774AbYCIK0w (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Mar 2008 06:26:52 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.169]:51963 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751530AbYCIK0v (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Mar 2008 06:26:51 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ADAVg0UOLjow8m0AogAfjM/QfVanat91PeMsqywjzq73msFwebMorz/NtNpgJDvoTGMnrXclVCsOsXQfO3zhJVx+IBnVYLuNJmWgW8MpF/MK78cyg3LEp5zhHd++pH9htwoE2HWPAan+8/bfQ0ZXZy+85dkZIYpY5sPlgvCP9Dk= Message-ID: Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:26:51 +0100 From: "Bart Van Assche" To: "Thomas Gleixner" Subject: Re: quicklists confuse meminfo Cc: LKML , "Linus Torvalds" , "Andrew Morton" , "Ingo Molnar" , "Christoph Lameter" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 865 Lines: 20 On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Bart reported http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9991. ... > + "QuickLists: %8lu kB\n" Regarding the patch: maybe it's better to spell this entry "Quicklists" than "QuickLists", since quicklist is a single word and not two words ? Regarding the memory occupied by quicklists: why does the amount of memory occupied by quicklists increase over time ? Is there a way to free the memory occupied by quicklists, similar to the way the memory occupied by caches can be freed (echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches) ? Bart. -- 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/