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Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch)

From Martin Schwarz <debian-lists@alias.kuroi.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch)
Date 2019-04-17 11:40 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 04:39:32PM +0200, Peter Wiersig wrote:
>        rss         RSS       resident set size, the non-swapped physical memory that a task has used (in kiloBytes).
>                              (alias rssize, rsz).
> ...
>        vsz         VSZ       virtual memory size of the process in KiB (1024-byte units).  Device mappings are currently
>                              excluded; this is subject to change. (alias vsize)."""
> 

Thanks for pointing out the difference. However, in this case I'm trying
to find out what consumes RAM specifically, not virtual memory in
general. Besides, from all I can see, the high memory usage is NOT
caused user space processes. So the output from ps was just to show that
even though some hundred MB of RAM (!) are used, just some few MB are
consumed by processes.

Kind regards
Martin

-- 
Martin Schwarz * Karlsruhe, Germany * http://kuroi.de/

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Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM  (Debian Stretch) Martin Schwarz <debian-lists@alias.kuroi.de> - 2019-04-15 14:50 +0200
  Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM  (Debian Stretch) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-04-15 15:40 +0200
    Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM  (Debian Stretch) Martin Schwarz <debian-lists@alias.kuroi.de> - 2019-04-15 16:50 +0200
      Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM  (Debian Stretch) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-04-15 18:10 +0200
        Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM  (Debian Stretch) Martin Schwarz <debian-lists@alias.kuroi.de> - 2019-04-16 10:30 +0200
          Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM  (Debian Stretch) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-04-16 11:00 +0200
            Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM  (Debian Stretch) Martin Schwarz <debian-lists@alias.kuroi.de> - 2019-04-16 14:40 +0200
              Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM  (Debian Stretch) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-04-16 15:10 +0200
  Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM  (Debian Stretch) Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2019-04-15 16:50 +0200
    Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM  (Debian Stretch) Martin Schwarz <debian-lists@alias.kuroi.de> - 2019-04-15 17:10 +0200
  Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch) Peter Wiersig <peter@friesenpeter.de> - 2019-04-16 16:40 +0200
    Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM  (Debian Stretch) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-04-16 18:50 +0200
      Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch) Peter Wiersig <peter@friesenpeter.de> - 2019-04-17 01:20 +0200
        Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM  (Debian Stretch) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-04-17 07:50 +0200
    Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM  (Debian Stretch) Martin Schwarz <debian-lists@alias.kuroi.de> - 2019-04-17 11:40 +0200
  Re: Need help analyzing (kernel?) memory usage and reclaiming RAM (Debian Stretch) Peter Wiersig <peter@friesenpeter.de> - 2019-04-17 01:40 +0200

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