On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:10 PM, =/_00/\/\ <z0032oom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for replying > Here is one observation worth mentioning. > On boot system it shows Mapped < Cached (In fact much less) > After using system for some time following commands are executed. > # sync and echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_cache > > Whenever above command is executed I can see Mapped > Cached. > > This is somewhat confusing for me. > Could you please explain ? > > Regards, > ~/ > > > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 21:16, =/_00/\/\ <z0032oom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am trying to analyze memory usage on my system. >> > As first step I am monitoring /proc/meminfo. >> > Surprisingly I see Mapped value is more than Cached. >> > >> > So in which case is it possible to have Mapped more than Cached ? >> >> your apps mmap() less than the amount of files content that are cached >> through normal read() AFAIK >> >> >> -- >> regards, >> >> Mulyadi Santosa >> Freelance Linux trainer and consultant >> >> blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com >> training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > Please, read some explanation about this command, for instance, in [1] [1] http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
