Tracking memory usage via page_owner
Issue
- Memory utilization is high, although there are no processes running on the server and ballooning is not occurring (if a hypervisor is involved).
- How do you determine who is using (owns) the pages of memory?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- specifically
kernel-3.10.0-1160.el7
and above
- specifically
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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