Hello list, i hope this is the right place to ask. If not i would be happy to point me to something else. I'm seeing the following behaviour on some of our hosts running a SLES 15 kernel (kernel v4.12 as it's base) but i don't think it's related to the kernel. At some "random" interval - mostly 3-6 weeks of uptime. Suddenly mem pressure rises and the linux cache (Cached: /proc/meminfo) drops from 12G to 3G. After that io pressure rises most probably due to low cache. But at the same time i've MemFree und MemAvailable at 19-22G. Why does this happen? How can i debug this situation? I would expect that the page / file cache never drops if there is so much free mem. Thanks a lot for your help. Greets, Stefan Not sure whether needed but these are the vm. kernel settings: vm.admin_reserve_kbytes = 8192 vm.block_dump = 0 vm.compact_unevictable_allowed = 1 vm.dirty_background_bytes = 0 vm.dirty_background_ratio = 10 vm.dirty_bytes = 0 vm.dirty_expire_centisecs = 3000 vm.dirty_ratio = 20 vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 500 vm.dirtytime_expire_seconds = 43200 vm.drop_caches = 0 vm.extfrag_threshold = 500 vm.hugepages_treat_as_movable = 0 vm.hugetlb_shm_group = 0 vm.laptop_mode = 0 vm.legacy_va_layout = 0 vm.lowmem_reserve_ratio = 256 256 32 1 vm.max_map_count = 65530 vm.memory_failure_early_kill = 0 vm.memory_failure_recovery = 1 vm.min_free_kbytes = 393216 vm.min_slab_ratio = 5 vm.min_unmapped_ratio = 1 vm.mmap_min_addr = 65536 vm.mmap_rnd_bits = 28 vm.mmap_rnd_compat_bits = 8 vm.nr_hugepages = 0 vm.nr_hugepages_mempolicy = 0 vm.nr_overcommit_hugepages = 0 vm.nr_pdflush_threads = 0 vm.numa_zonelist_order = default vm.oom_dump_tasks = 1 vm.oom_kill_allocating_task = 0 vm.overcommit_kbytes = 0 vm.overcommit_memory = 0 vm.overcommit_ratio = 50 vm.page-cluster = 3 vm.panic_on_oom = 0 vm.percpu_pagelist_fraction = 0 vm.stat_interval = 1 vm.swappiness = 50 vm.user_reserve_kbytes = 131072 vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 100 vm.watermark_scale_factor = 10 vm.zone_reclaim_mode = 0
