Yes, kind of like DOS, apparently the kernel does use this low memory for a
process handling area as well as buffer storage for TCP and other traffic. I
also found a new command that I didn't know of before call slabtop. it shows
you the top items using slab. I haven't totally figured out what exactly
slab is yet, but I am reading whatever I can find on it.



On Nov 13, 2007 8:09 AM, JD Austin <jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:

>  Shawn Badger wrote:
>
> I am having this on going problem with my sever running out of low memory,
> or that is at least what my support company is saying.
> The question I pose the group is how can I tell how much memory is left in
> the low memory area that the kernel uses and what is using it?
>
> I have been looking at /proc/slabinfo and playing with slabtop, but I have
> no clues what I am looking at in theses areas.
>
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>  I haven't heard of 'low memory' referenced since the dos days ;)
> Are they talking about physical memory versus swap?
> Typically in linux I use the 'free' command to see how much memory is
> available and used.
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