Kernel memory

[Shawn Badger]

It is 2.6 32bit, from what I understand the 64 bit kernel handles things
allot different at this level though.



On Nov 13, 2007 8:41 AM, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com> wrote:

>  Which kernel are you using?
> 2.6 Kernels supposedly have better memory management than 2.4.
>
> Shawn Badger wrote:
>
> 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 at 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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