Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:12:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:11:59 -0500 Received: from netfinity.realnet.co.sz ([196.28.7.2]:38563 "HELO netfinity.realnet.co.sz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:11:44 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:54:12 +0200 (SAST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo X-X-Sender: zwane@netfinity.realnet.co.sz To: MrChuoi Cc: Linux Kernel , Alan Cox Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre3-ac1 In-Reply-To: <20020319012940.430CC4E534@mail.vnsecurity.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Just a question, does the commited as field specify how much memory has actually been *allocated* as per requests, but not necesserily in use? This one is my home box, looks a bit crazy don't you think? The box has about ~120 processes right now, heavy X session (2000x2000@32 virtual, KDE2 with lots of eye candy), two kernel builds in the background and cdrecord. Linux version 2.4.19-pre2-ac3 (zwane@montezuma) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #2 Sat Mar 9 20:44:38 SAST 2002 total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 527527936 519610368 7917568 0 16871424 398352384 Swap: 542785536 73433088 469352448 MemTotal: 515164 kB MemFree: 7732 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 16476 kB Cached: 380044 kB SwapCached: 8972 kB Active: 262252 kB Inact_dirty: 209392 kB Inact_clean: 11248 kB Inact_target: 96576 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 515164 kB LowFree: 7732 kB SwapTotal: 530064 kB SwapFree: 458352 kB Committed AS: 8060848 kB Things could get interesting if everyone touches their pages ;) - 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/