linux-kernel - A curious user would like to know what anonpages are.

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Message-ID: <6d4bc9fc0611211530te8b9b6m84860c7aacdd1b01@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:30:33 +0100
From:	"Maarten Maathuis" <madman2003@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: A curious user would like to know what anonpages are.

Recently i noticed an (in my eyes) unexplainable memory loss, I
couldn't trace it a specific process, the slab, buffers or any of the
usual places.

cat /proc/meminfo revealed something called anonpages, which seemed to
be around a 100 MiB large.

I have no idea what they are, searching the mailinglist archives or
using a conventional search engine didn't yield anything usefull.

Can anyone enlighten a curious user?

Sincerely,

Maarten Maathuis.

PS: Please CC me any replies, thank you.
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