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question regarding dm365 memory consumption

Hi,

    I'm new to dm365. I have a dm365 EVM board at hand and I'm starting from scratch to learn dvsdk. I recently do some testing for dm365. After the linux boot up (root=/dev/nfs), I execute the command "cat /proc/meminfo " and I got this information as follow:

MemTotal:        76944 kB

MemFree:         16444 kB

Buffers:             0 kB

Cached:           7552 kB

SwapCached:          0 kB

Active:           6184 kB

Inactive:         2840 kB

HighTotal:           0 kB

HighFree:            0 kB

LowTotal:        76944 kB

LowFree:         16444 kB

SwapTotal:           0 kB

SwapFree:            0 kB

Dirty:               0 kB

Writeback:           0 kB

AnonPages:        1500 kB

Mapped:           2228 kB

Slab:             2460 kB

PageTables:        128 kB

NFS_Unstable:        0 kB

Bounce:              0 kB

CommitLimit:     38472 kB

Committed_AS:     4196 kB

VmallocTotal:   886784 kB

VmallocUsed:       492 kB

VmallocChunk:   886284 kB

As you can see, almost 60Mbyte memory has been used by linux kernel and its driver. Is that normal? Could anybody tell me why linux kernel consume so much memory?

Thanks