> > > Hi , > > Is there any document which would explain the individual > caches displayed in /proc/slabinfo . > " man slabinfo " does not help . > > For example what does "size-8192" ,etc fields represent ? > Are they the pages distributed by the buddy allocator ? > The "size-" fields are the one gets allocated by kmalloc(). It varies from 32 bytes to 128K. These are the slabs for general purpose usage ( Not for any well known kernel structures ). Other things in the slabinfo are for well known kernel structures. > If no, how to find the page usage distribution from proc ? I > needed the information similar to that displayed in ALT+SYSRQ+M . > > TIA . > > Cheers ! > > > > > > _______________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! > http://vote.yahoo.com > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/