On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 04:23, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> No, because Linux doesn't see the CPU cache.  I'd bet my last 
> kopek that Paul is talking about:
> 
> $ cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal:      1003760 kB
> MemFree:         89652 kB
> Buffers:        138752 kB   <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> Cached:         326116 kB   <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> SwapCached:       7260 kB

Actually in this context (meminfo) "Cached" refers to pagecache (i.e.
the amount of memory used to cache physical pages).

It is pagecache - swapcache

> Slab:           203148 kB

This shows cache used by the slab layer (i.e. cached data structures).

-- 
Eric Gaumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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