linux-kernel - Re: quicklists confuse meminfo

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Message-ID: <e2e108260803090326j5e418c7dq41c72ef09f6991e@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:26:51 +0100
From:	"Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@...il.com>
To:	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>
Subject: Re: quicklists confuse meminfo

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> Bart reported http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9991.
...
>  +               "QuickLists:   %8lu kB\n"

Regarding the patch: maybe it's better to spell this entry
"Quicklists" than "QuickLists", since quicklist is a single word and
not two words ?

Regarding the memory occupied by quicklists: why does the amount of
memory occupied by quicklists increase over time ? Is there a way to
free the memory occupied by quicklists, similar to the way the memory
occupied by caches can be freed (echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches) ?

Bart.
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