On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > The issue is: with SLUB large kmallocs don't set NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE > zone item. > Thus, they don't show at /proc/meminfo. Is this okey? Yes. Other large allocations that are done directly via __get_free_pages() etc also do not show up there. Slab allocators are intended for small allocation and are not effective for large scale allocs. People will use multiple different ways of acquiring large memory areas. So there is no consistent accounting for that memory. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>