Re: How much memory kernel uses

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On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 10:07:37PM -0300, Ricardo Jose Pfitscher wrote:
>    Hello guys,
>    I need help with memory management, i have a question: Is there a way
>    to find out how much memory is being used by the kernel (preferably
>    form userspace)?
>    Anything like /proc/meminfo....
>    Thank you,
>    --
>    Ricardo José Pfitscher

Take a glance at http://www.halobates.de/memorywaste.pdf as a start-point to
understand where the kernel is potentially using memory (the doc is old, and
things might have changed a bit since its publication, but it stills valid as a
study reference). Also, this userland tool might come handy to your studies:
http://www.selenic.com/smem/


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