On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Sengottuvelan S wrote: > Hi I would like to understand /proc/meminfo in detail. I have little > knowledge about meminfo & free will give us better idea about memory > utilization. But i am not aware of whole architecture that how > memory organized in kernel. Is there any diagram which explains > more information about memory in linux? when in doubt, check out the source. many of the source files for /proc files can be found in the kernel source tree, under fs/proc. in fact, there exists the source file fs/proc/meminfo.c. that would seem the best place to learn how the output from /proc/meminfo is generated. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================