Re: Memory consumption on linux

Christian Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Global cache is easy to understand - file system / inode caches. What >> exactly is buffers, though? On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:25:29PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > http://www.halobates.de/memorywaste.pdf and http://www.halobates.de/memory.pdf > give

Re: Memory consumption on linux

Christian Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Global cache is easy to understand - file system / inode caches. What > exactly is buffers, though? http://www.halobates.de/memorywaste.pdf and http://www.halobates.de/memory.pdf give some overview of in kernel memory users. -Andi - To unsubscribe

Re: Memory consumption on linux

On Tuesday 01 May 2007 22:31, Christian Schmidt wrote: > And, how does process memory relate to system memory? Usually the sum > of the resident memory (ps -o rss) is way off from the used memory > displayed by free. RSS has all the shared pages in it too. > where you can see discrepancies in ei

Memory consumption on linux

Hi all, I could not find good documentation anywhere on the memory usage of linux, or rather, how to interpret the output of the various tools dealing with memory consumption. First of, generally - there's resident, virtual and shared memory for each process, and global buffers/cache. Global cac