On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:21:51PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > If that's the case it would seem to be somewhat of a pain to get and > > kind of out of left field as I'd say most people would expect MemFree to > > indicate the amount of memory that's no longer freely available > > (ignoring swapping it out for simplicities sake). > > I'm somewhat confused as to what you're saying. How would anyone expect > MemFree to be memory that is _not_ freely available?
I think we have conflicting ideas of what 'freely available' means here which is causing the confusion. :) > Or are you asking how to compute the amount of freeable memory, that is > memory that isn't currently free, but could be freed up under pressure? Yes. I think I am. (heh) > If that is indeed your question, then yes, thats rather hard as slabinfo > and the like don't indicate which buckets have shrinkers (but even if Ah. Foo. > they would have shrinkers there is no guarantee they'd be able to shrink > 100%) Whacky. :/ -- "To the extent that we overreact, we proffer the terrorists the greatest tribute." - High Court Judge Michael Kirby -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/