Re: 2.6.24-rc7: memory leak?

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Thu Jan 17 2008 - 07:22:38 EST


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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