On Tue 06-08-19 20:25:51, Pankaj Suryawanshi wrote: [...] > lowmem reserve ? it is min_free_kbytes or something else. Nope. Lowmem rezerve is a measure to protect from allocations targetting higher zones (have a look at setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve). The value for each zone depends on the amount of memory managed by the zone and the ratio which can be tuned from the userspace. min_free_kbytes controls reclaim watermarks. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs