On Mon, 2021-08-30 at 20:26 +0300, Mikko Rantalainen wrote: > ... deleted ... > Of course one possible solution is to keep "Cached" as is and > introduce > "Cache" with the real cache semantics (that is, it includes sum of > (Cached - Shmem) and memory backed RAM). That way system > administrators > would at least see two different fields with unique values and look > for > the documentation. > I would recommend adding new field. There is likely to be a good number of tools/scripts out there that already interpret the data from /proc/meminfo and possily take actions based upon that data. Those tools will break if we change the sense of existing data. A new field has the down side of expanding the output further but it also doesn't break existing tols. -- Khalid
