Re: memory usage

From: Marcin Kowalski (kowalski@datrix.co.za)
Date: Wed Apr 11 2001 - 03:37:29 EST


> I can use "ps" to see memory usage of daemons and user programs.
> I can't find any memory information of kernel with "top" and "ps".

> Do you know how to take memory usage information of kernel ?
> Thanks for your help.

Regarding this issue, I have a similar problem if I do a free on my system I
get :
--- total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1157444 1148120 9324 0 22080 459504
-/+ buffers/cache: 666536 490908
Swap: 641016 19072 621944

---
Now what I do a ps there seems no way to accound for the 500mb + of memory 
used. No single or group of processes uses that amount of memory. THis is 
very disconcerting, coupled with extremely high loads when cache is dumped to 
disk locking up the machine makes me want to move back to 2.2.19 from 2.4.3.

I would also be curious to see how the kernel is using memory...

TIA MARCin

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