Re: A curious user would like to know what anonpages are.

[Jesper Juhl]

On 22/11/06, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Recently i noticed an (in my eyes) unexplainable memory loss, I
> couldn't trace it a specific process, the slab, buffers or any of the
> usual places.
>
> cat /proc/meminfo revealed something called anonpages, which seemed to
> be around a 100 MiB large.
>
> I have no idea what they are, searching the mailinglist archives or
> using a conventional search engine didn't yield anything usefull.
>
> Can anyone enlighten a curious user?

Hmm, wouldn't that be "anonymous pages"?  See http://lwn.net/Articles/77106/


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