How to find how much memory consumed by Linux Kernel in my system

kspradhan · 11-15-2008, 12:06 AM

Hi,
I have a simple question.

Linux Node1 2.6.10-telco-1.46-mckinley-smp #1 SMP Fri May 30 18:29:43 UTC 2008 ia64 GNU/Linux

1. How to determine what is the total amount of kernel memory consumed in my IA64 LINUX System ?

2. How to determine per process level how much kernel memory is consumed(or it does make sense as kernel works for all process , and there would mutual memory used for all process)

Thanks
Krupa

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 11-15-2008, 12:15 AM

Simple answer: Start a terminal session and type: top

Matthias · 11-17-2008, 10:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by {BBI}Nexus{BBI}

Simple answer: Start a terminal session and type: top

But top shows only the resources used by the processes
not by the kernel.

kspradhan · 11-17-2008, 11:12 PM

Thats right.. Ps is not quick help
I have crash dump. Any quick command on crash> terminal to get kernel memory used ?