Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2011-08-10

Mapped more than Cached in /proc/meminfo

From: Vladimir Murzin <hidden>
Date: 2011-08-09 15:00:01

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:10 PM, =/_00/\/\ [off-list ref] wrote:
Hi,

Thanks for replying
Here is one observation worth mentioning.
On boot system it shows Mapped < Cached (In fact much less)
After using system for some time following commands are executed.
# sync and echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_cache

Whenever above command is executed I can see Mapped > Cached.

This is somewhat confusing for me.
Could you please explain ?

Regards,
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On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Mulyadi Santosa [off-list ref]
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On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 21:16, =/_00/\/\ [off-list ref] wrote:
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Hi,

I am trying to analyze memory usage on my system.
As first step I am monitoring /proc/meminfo.
Surprisingly I see Mapped value is more than Cached.

So in which case is it possible to have Mapped more than Cached ?
your apps mmap() less than the amount of files content that are cached
through normal read() AFAIK


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Mulyadi Santosa
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Please, read some explanation about this command, for instance, in [1]

[1] http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches
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