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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-21 19:05:45 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-21 19:05:45 -0800
commitdf32e43a54d04eda35d2859beaf90e3864d53288 (patch)
tree7a61cf658b2949bd426285eb9902be7758ced1ba /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
parentfbd918a2026d0464ce9c23f57b7de4bcfccdc2e6 (diff)
parent78d5506e82b21a1a1de68c24182db2c2fe521422 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - a couple of misc things - inotify/fsnotify work from Jan - ocfs2 updates (partial) - about half of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (117 commits) mm/migrate: remove unused function, fail_migrate_page() mm/migrate: remove putback_lru_pages, fix comment on putback_movable_pages mm/migrate: correct failure handling if !hugepage_migration_support() mm/migrate: add comment about permanent failure path mm, page_alloc: warn for non-blockable __GFP_NOFAIL allocation failure mm: compaction: reset scanner positions immediately when they meet mm: compaction: do not mark unmovable pageblocks as skipped in async compaction mm: compaction: detect when scanners meet in isolate_freepages mm: compaction: reset cached scanner pfn's before reading them mm: compaction: encapsulate defer reset logic mm: compaction: trace compaction begin and end memcg, oom: lock mem_cgroup_print_oom_info sched: add tracepoints related to NUMA task migration mm: numa: do not automatically migrate KSM pages mm: numa: trace tasks that fail migration due to rate limiting mm: numa: limit scope of lock for NUMA migrate rate limiting mm: numa: make NUMA-migrate related functions static lib/show_mem.c: show num_poisoned_pages when oom mm/hwpoison: add '#' to hwpoison_inject mm/memblock: use WARN_ONCE when MAX_NUMNODES passed as input parameter ...
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@@ -767,6 +767,7 @@ The "Locked" indicates whether the mapping is locked in memory or not.
MemTotal: 16344972 kB
MemFree: 13634064 kB
+MemAvailable: 14836172 kB
Buffers: 3656 kB
Cached: 1195708 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
@@ -799,6 +800,14 @@ AnonHugePages: 49152 kB
MemTotal: Total usable ram (i.e. physical ram minus a few reserved
bits and the kernel binary code)
MemFree: The sum of LowFree+HighFree
+MemAvailable: An estimate of how much memory is available for starting new
+ applications, without swapping. Calculated from MemFree,
+ SReclaimable, the size of the file LRU lists, and the low
+ watermarks in each zone.
+ The estimate takes into account that the system needs some
+ page cache to function well, and that not all reclaimable
+ slab will be reclaimable, due to items being in use. The
+ impact of those factors will vary from system to system.
Buffers: Relatively temporary storage for raw disk blocks
shouldn't get tremendously large (20MB or so)
Cached: in-memory cache for files read from the disk (the