Where did all my memory go?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 09:16 -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> > And how is anybody here going to be able to debug or even only guess
> > what is wrong when using a kernel like that ?
> >   
> Well, I would assume, by having a better idea about how memory 
> allocations work, and how they can be tracked, people could hint me as 
> to how to figure out what's eating all the memory (since the top command 
> isn't helping). Maybe three's a command I don't know about, or /proc 
> statistics that could explain what's happening. If I knew how to debug 
> the problem I wouldn't be asking the question, would I?
> 
> I guess I should cc Steve Grubb on this, since the kernel does include 
> lspp patches.

also ask nvidia and madwifi for help first I suppose ;)