kernel memory usage

Bharath H S bhslinker at gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 22:37:42 EST 2010


I think Naveen means, all the memory does not appear in the output of
/proc/meminfo, the reason is kernel memory is discounted and not
accounted for in the output. May be his goal is to calculate the total
memory in the system and that output of /proc/meminfo does not give
that.



On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 20:30, naveen yadav <yad.naveen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I want to calculate the total kernel memory usage.
>
> First, what's your definition of "kernel memory" ? Everything that is
> mapped inside kernel address space only?
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