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Re: kernel is using 50M of memory



On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:44:27PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I was looking at the memory usage (gmemusage, and /proc/meminfo),
> and I was noticing that 'linux' was using nearly 50m of memory.  I
> was rather disturbed, and wondering why

Um, /proc/meminfo doesn't say how much the kernel is using (well, not
directly, anyway -- you can derive it by subtracting how much RAM is in
your system from the 'MemTotal' portion).

Why do you think it's using 50M?  Sure -you- aren't using it?

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