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. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>