Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 17:04:37 +0930 From: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libmemstat(3) - Library for monitoring kernel memory use Message-ID: <20060606073436.GK27880@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <20060606071736.J68996@fledge.watson.org> References: <C1BBF34889A04C4C8ACEE5C7CC753FDFCCA68E@PNE-HJN-MBX01.wipro.com> <20060606071736.J68996@fledge.watson.org>
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0n Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 07:20:39AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
>
>On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 bhuvan.kumarmital@wipro.com wrote:
>
>> Saw your tool (memtop) for monitoring kernel memory. I'd like to use a
>>similar tool for linux, i believe your tool is bsd based. Could you tell
>>me a similar tool, or perhaps another version of memtop built for linux.
>>I'd really appreciate you help. Please reply on my email address.
>
>Bhuvan,
>
>You are correct that libmemstat and derived tools currently rely on
>features present in the FreeBSD kernel. The library provides a general
>monitoring abstraction over a set of specific kernel memory allocators --
>specifically, the FreeBSD malloc(9) and uma(9) allocators. It is
>relatively straight forward to implement that abstraction for other memory
>allocators, such as user space allocators or kernel allocators from other
>platforms, but that work has not been done (as far as I know). I'm not
>aware of specific monitoring tools for the Linux operating system that are
>able to perform this type of profiling/monitoring, although I presume some
>sort of kernel memory profiling tool does exist.
Erm, Robert, where does memtop live ? I can find it in ports nor base system.
-aW
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