On Tue 24-04-18 11:13:16, Chris Friesen wrote: [...] > Reading the docs on the memory controller it does seem a bit tricky. I had > envisioned some sort of "is there memory left in this group" check before > "approving" the memory allocation, but it seems it doesn't really work that > way. No, your memory will be usually eaten by the page cache. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs