Mapped more than Cached in /proc/meminfo

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Sat Aug 6 00:27:14 EDT 2011


On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 21:16, =/_00/\/\ <z0032oom at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to analyze memory usage on my system.
> As first step I am monitoring /proc/meminfo.
> Surprisingly I see Mapped value is more than Cached.
>
> So in which case is it possible to have Mapped more than Cached ?

your apps mmap() less than the amount of files content that are cached
through normal read() AFAIK


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