linux-kernel - Re: Memory consumption on linux

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Date:	02 May 2007 14:25:29 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Christian Schmidt <lkml@...add.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Memory consumption on linux

Christian Schmidt <lkml@...add.de> writes:

> Global cache is easy to understand - file system / inode caches. What
> exactly is buffers, though?

http://www.halobates.de/memorywaste.pdf and http://www.halobates.de/memory.pdf
give some overview of in kernel memory users.

-Andi

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