Re: Memory consumption on linux

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Wed May 02 2007 - 12:11:00 EST


Christian Schmidt <lkml@xxxxxxxxx> 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 some overview of in kernel memory users.

Very interesting. This is a veritable TODO list.


-- wli
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