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

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Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:55:16 +0100
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"Maarten Maathuis" <madman2003@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A curious user would like to know what anonpages are.

On 22/11/06, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003@...il.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

Hmm, wouldn't that be "anonymous pages"?  See http://lwn.net/Articles/77106/


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