Thanks a lot Tanel for the excellent pointers.. I will go through the same..
On Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 08:25 Tanel Poder <tanel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Forgot to paste the link:
http://andorian.blogspot.com/2014/03/making-sense-of-procbuddyinfo.html
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 10:53 PM Tanel Poder <tanel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You can monitor the fragmentation of (some) kernel memory via
*/proc/buddyinfo*. This is a good article explaining the buddy allocator
basics and how to read /proc/buddyinfo + a python script:
$ *cat /proc/buddyinfo *
Node 0, zone DMA 1 0 0 0 2 1 1
0 1 1 3
Node 0, zone DMA32 2656 4401 3224 4288 1480 277 29
0 0 0 0
Node 0, zone Normal 23 76 25 16 5 0 0
0 1 0 0
