Debugging kernel memory usage

[Ralf Ertzinger]

Hi.

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:10:21 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote

> top shows no obvious offenders in the memory department, and I'm not
> really sure how to read /proc/{meminfo,slabinfo,zoneinfo}. Is there
> a webpage detailing how to find out how much memory the kernel uses
> for it's own purposes, possibly sorted by the module that allocated
> it?

A follow up for those who care:
the offender seems to be kvm, as memory allocated by qemu-kvm is not
being freed after qemu has terminated.