> MemAvailable is a bad heuristic, it does *not* represent "free" > memory.
MemAvailable is a good heuristic, it does represent available memory. вт, 14 июл. 2020 г. в 00:49, Benjamin Berg <bb...@redhat.com>: > On Mon, 2020-07-13 at 08:21 -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > On Monday, July 13, 2020 1:58:30 AM MST Benjamin Berg wrote: > > > But, I also think that the people proposing this have done quite a lot > > > of testing to find reasonable values for various scenarios. If they > > > have done their job correctly, then EarlyOOM will *not* prevent you > > > from fully utilizing your system memory in most scenarios. > > > > By the very nature of the configuration, that's not the case. For > example, on > > my system, for example, it will start sending SIGTERM where I have over > 600 > > MiB free, and will begin to simply kill software when I have over a > quarter of > > a gigabyte left. > > You keep saying these numbers, yet I don't see how your claim adds up. > > 1. 600MiB assumes 10% of main memory. > However, Fedora uses 4% (capped at 400MiB) > (see /etc/default/earlyoom, which contains "-m 4 -M 409600") > > 2. So EarlyOOM uses this calculation on Fedora: > `MemAvailable < min(MemTotal * 4%, 400MiB)` > (values come from /proc/meminfo) > > 3. MemAvailable is a bad heuristic, it does *not* represent "free" > memory. > > Benjamin > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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