about free/used memory on Linux
Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali) wrote:
> Hi Vaidy,
> What do you think is the right way to get the memory usage of a
> process, I mean the actual physical memory used ? Basically, I'm
> interested in the incremental cost of a process, which means, I
Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali) wrote:
> Hi Vaidy,
> What do you think is the right way to get the memory usage of a
> process, I mean the actual physical memory used ? Basically,
> I'm interested in the incremental cost of a process, which
> means, I don't want to include the text segments of shared
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To: Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali)
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Subject: Re: Question about free/used memory on Linux
Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali) wrote:
> Hi Vaidy,
> Thanks for clarifying several of my doubts.
>
> To answer your que
hanks,
Ravi
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From: Pádraig Brady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 3:05 AM
To: Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali)
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Subject: Re: Question about free/used memory on Linux
Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali) wrote:
> Hi kernel gurus,
> I a
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali) wrote:
> Hi Vaidy,
> Thanks for clarifying several of my doubts.
>
> To answer your question about my intention, we currently have a
> system with 2 GB RAM and I need to find out the actual used and
> free memory so that we can decide if the sam
Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali) wrote:
Hi Vaidy,
Thanks for clarifying several of my doubts.
To answer your question about my intention, we currently have a
system with 2 GB RAM and I need to find out the actual used and
free memory so that we can decide if the same setup(applications,
tmpfs et
Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali) wrote:
> Hi kernel gurus,
> I am trying to find out the memory that's used on my linux box.
> I find that there are quite a few confusing metrics. How do
> I find out the "true" used memory ?
>
> 1. For eg. "free -m" shows free memory (excluding buffers/caches)
> as
Hi Vaidy,
I will use the metric you have suggested.
Thanks,
Ravi
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From: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 10:50 PM
To: Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali)
Cc: Linux Kernel
Subject: Re: Question about free/used memory on Linux
Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali) wrote:
> Hi Vaidy,
> Thanks for clarifying several of my doubts.
>
> To answer your question about my intention, we currently have a
> system with 2 GB RAM and I need to find out the actual used and
> free memory so that we can decide if the same setup(applications
unday, October 21, 2007 12:01 PM
To: Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali)
Cc: Linux Kernel
Subject: Re: Question about free/used memory on Linux
Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali) wrote:
> Hi kernel gurus,
> I am trying to find out the memory that's used on my linux box.
> I find that there are quite
Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali) wrote:
> Hi kernel gurus,
> I am trying to find out the memory that's used on my linux box.
> I find that there are quite a few confusing metrics. How do
> I find out the "true" used memory ?
pagecache pages may be the reason for the confusion. Most free memory can
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