Thanks Emeric....:-) On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Emeric VIGIER <emeric.vig...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Manjeet, > > That's interesting... I am not quite sure 'free' and 'proc/mem/info' > include any sensitive information for your company. > If you stored your last sales figures in those files, believe me, it is a > wrong wrong idea... > Also it is probably against your company policy to expose your problems on > this mail thread. Did you think about it? > > Anyway, since you don't want a specific answer, you'll get a generic one. > Have a look to the excellent site: > http://www.linuxatemyram.com/ > including the experiments: > http://www.linuxatemyram.com/play.html > > Emeric > > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Manjeet Pawar <mpchapmanj...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> @Emric...I would have do that , but I am sorry I can't do >> anything against of company policy... >> >> But u can do @ ur side... >> Write a simple program and do malloc and memset in while(1) , it will >> give u OOM (if u have enabled it or if u have applied OOM patch)... >> >> then you can checkout all the information printed by OOM..and I have >> tried more than 2-3 applications, but couldn't calculate the exact memory >> usage . >> >> Initially I got this problem when I was using browser, when I try to open >> the link , I got OOM...then I tried to calculate amount to free memory and >> used memory , I found that a large chunk of memory (200MB approx) was used >> by some other processes. then i tried with other small programs and get OOM >> for them, but thing is for every program there is always some memory >> confusion(who used extras memory).... >> >> yeah I do cat /proc/meminfo also....when I do malloc and memset , in >> meminfo I found that inactive pages has grown up, in meminfo I can >> mainupulate memory calculations easily and i got correct results... >> >> But in case of running browser on my target board I am needing to know >> where is rest of memory going when it is required by my browser. >> >> Thanks >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Emeric VIGIER >> <emeric.vig...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Can you make a print of what returns "free" command and >>> /process/meminfo? It would help us target our answer to your specific >>> example. >>> >>> Emeric >>> Le 17 janv. 2013 04:10, "Manjeet Pawar" <mpchapmanj...@gmail.com> a >>> écrit : >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I have a issue regarding memory . >>>> >>>> I ran a program on my board that continuously do malloc and write some >>>> data at that memory location and put this code in while loop. it ran for >>>> some >>>> time untill it consume the whole of the memory and then given a OOM. >>>> where we get information about the memory consumed and free memory. >>>> >>>> But when i adds up the userspace memory and kernel memory which gives >>>> total used memory and I know the total free memory available(cat >>>> /proc/meminfo)...But I get the free memory available much lesse than the >>>> expected value. >>>> >>>> I am confused where is the rest of memory . >>>> >>>> I adds user space memory=active anon+ inactive anon+ active file + >>>> inactive file >>>> >>>> and kernel memory usage is =slab reclaimable and slab unreclaimable + >>>> kernel stack+page tables >>>> >>>> this give the total memory used. But when I subtract this total used >>>> memory from the total available memory , a large chunk should be free, but >>>> practically after getting OOM I am leaving with a small memory >>>> >>>> ANY IDEA, who consumed the rest of the memory. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Manjeet >>>> >>>> -- >>>> unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >>>> website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel >>> >>> -- >>> unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >>> website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel >> >> >> -- >> unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel >> > > -- > unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel > -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
