Re: Kernel memory profiling

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 2 May 1999 17:20:34 +0100


On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 05:25:05PM +0200, Joerg Henne wrote:

> After the system's startup the memory usage looks like this:
> - free: 27M
> - shared: 9.6M
> - buffers: 10M
> - cached: 20M
>
> The amount of memory used slowly increases thereafter ultimately leading to
> the system's halt.

The output of /proc/slabinfo after startup and then at intervals might yield
a clue; also if you compile in magic SysRq support and hit Alt+SysRq+M that
info might be useful..

S.

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