From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
To: Marcos Dione <mdione@grulic.org.ar>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcos-david.dione@amadeus.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: committed memory, mmaps and shms
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:09:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150312150937.GA13256@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150312124053.GA30035@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Thu 12-03-15 08:40:53, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> I think it would make more sense to add something like easily
> reclaimable chache to the output of free (pagecache-shmem-dirty
> basically). That would give an admin a better view on immediatelly
> re-usable memory.
Ohh, I have just learned that /proc/meminfo already provides such an
information. It's MemAvailable and should give you an idea about how
much memory is re-usable.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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2015-03-12 12:40 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-12 14:54 ` Marcos Dione
2015-03-12 15:35 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-12 16:56 ` Marcos Dione
2015-03-13 14:09 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-13 16:04 ` Marcos Dione
2015-03-13 14:58 ` Marcos Dione
2015-06-03 16:26 ` Marcos Dione
2015-03-12 15:09 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
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