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Rik van Riel 34e431b0ae /proc/meminfo: provide estimated available memory 
Many load balancing and workload placing programs check /proc/meminfo to
estimate how much free memory is available.  They generally do this by
adding up "free" and "cached", which was fine ten years ago, but is
pretty much guaranteed to be wrong today.

It is wrong because Cached includes memory that is not freeable as page
cache, for example shared memory segments, tmpfs, and ramfs, and it does
not include reclaimable slab memory, which can take up a large fraction
of system memory on mostly idle systems with lots of files.

Currently, the amount of memory that is available for a new workload,
without pushing the system into swap, can be estimated from MemFree,
Active(file), Inactive(file), and SReclaimable, as well as the "low"
watermarks from /proc/zoneinfo.

However, this may change in the future, and user space really should not
be expected to know kernel internals to come up with an estimate for the
amount of free memory.

It is more convenient to provide such an estimate in /proc/meminfo.  If
things change in the future, we only have to change it in one place.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Erik Mouw <erik.mouw_2@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-21 16:19:43 -08:00
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caching FS-Cache: Provide the ability to enable/disable cookies 2013-09-27 18:40:25 +01:00
cifs cifs: update cifs.txt and remove some outdated infos 2013-09-13 16:29:58 -05:00
configfs configfs: convert to umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:57 -05:00
nfs doc: filesystems : Fix typo in Documentations/filesystems 2013-08-20 13:45:56 +02:00
pohmelfs Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation 2012-03-07 16:08:24 +01:00
00-INDEX Introduce a new file system, Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS), to Linux 3.8. 2012-12-20 13:54:52 -08:00
9p.txt 9p: fix 9p.txt to advertise msize instead of maxdata 2011-10-24 11:13:12 -05:00
adfs.txt adfs: add hexadecimal filetype suffix option 2011-03-22 17:44:17 -07:00
affs.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
afs.txt AFS: Documentation updates 2009-08-19 10:40:13 -07:00
autofs4-mount-control.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
automount-support.txt VFS: Unexport do_kern_mount() and clean up simple_pin_fs() 2006-06-09 09:34:16 -04:00
befs.txt Documentation: befs.txt: no maintainer, orphaned 2011-08-13 18:34:03 -07:00
bfs.txt remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation 2008-07-22 19:24:29 +10:00
btrfs.txt Documentation: filesystems: update btrfs tools section 2013-11-21 11:51:50 -05:00
ceph.txt ceph: enable/disable dentry complete flags via mount option 2012-01-12 11:00:40 -08:00
coda.txt
cramfs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
debugfs.txt debugfs: more tightly restrict default mount mode 2012-08-27 13:42:02 -07:00
devpts.txt Document usage of multiple-instances of devpts 2009-01-02 10:19:36 -08:00
directory-locking vfs: take i_mutex on renamed file 2013-11-09 00:16:40 -05:00
dlmfs.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
dnotify.txt Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files 2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
dnotify_test.c Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files 2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
ecryptfs.txt eCryptfs: Move ecryptfs docs into Documentation/filesystems/ 2007-07-17 10:23:08 -07:00
efivarfs.txt efivarfs: Add documentation for the EFI variable filesystem 2012-10-30 10:39:18 +00:00
exofs.txt exofs: Add option to mount by osdname 2011-03-15 15:02:51 +02:00
ext2.txt Doc fix: ext2 can only have 32,000 subdirs, not 32,768 2009-06-18 13:03:44 -07:00
ext3.txt ext3: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option 2013-07-31 22:11:15 +02:00
ext4.txt Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-09-06 09:36:28 -07:00
f2fs.txt f2fs: update f2fs document 2013-11-01 11:20:05 +09:00
fiemap.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
files.txt Wrap accesses to the fd_sets in struct fdtable 2012-02-19 10:30:52 -08:00
fuse.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
gfs2-glocks.txt GFS2: Update glock doc to add new stats info 2012-05-10 12:41:40 +01:00
gfs2-uevents.txt Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation 2012-03-07 16:08:24 +01:00
gfs2.txt GFS2: Update main gfs2 doc 2012-05-10 11:45:31 +01:00
hfs.txt Documentation: HFS is orphaned 2011-11-04 12:01:48 -07:00
hfsplus.txt Documentation: document HFSPlus 2007-07-31 15:39:38 -07:00
hpfs.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
inotify.txt Documentation: fix inotify source file paths 2011-11-04 12:01:47 -07:00
isofs.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
jfs.txt doc: fix misspellings with 'codespell' tool 2013-05-28 12:02:12 +02:00
Locking Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-07-03 09:10:19 -07:00
locks.txt doc: fix broken references 2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
logfs.txt fix "seperate" typos in comments 2010-05-10 11:56:30 +02:00
Makefile Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files 2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
mandatory-locking.txt locks: add warning about mandatory locking races 2007-10-09 18:32:45 -04:00
ncpfs.txt ncpfs: remove dead URL from documentation 2009-09-23 07:39:42 -07:00
nilfs2.txt nilfs2: remove resize from unsupported features list 2011-07-13 16:08:59 +09:00
ntfs.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
ocfs2.txt ocfs2: clean up mount option about atime in ocfs2.txt 2011-05-23 23:37:12 -07:00
omfs.txt omfs: add filesystem documentation 2008-07-26 12:00:05 -07:00
path-lookup.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
porting iget/iget5: don't bother with ->i_lock until we find a match 2013-11-09 00:16:31 -05:00
proc.txt /proc/meminfo: provide estimated available memory 2014-01-21 16:19:43 -08:00
qnx6.txt doc: filesystems : Fix typo in Documentations/filesystems 2013-08-20 13:45:56 +02:00
quota.txt quota: documentation for sending "below quota" messages via netlink and tiny doc update 2008-08-12 16:07:27 -07:00
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specified 2013-09-11 15:59:38 -07:00
relay.txt doc: Fix typo in doucmentations 2013-07-25 12:34:15 +02:00
romfs.txt Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt: fixing link to genromfs 2011-02-17 22:04:46 +01:00
seq_file.txt seq_file: use proc_create() in documentation 2009-12-16 07:20:07 -08:00
sharedsubtree.txt Documentation: Fix trivial typo in filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt 2010-10-25 21:18:21 -04:00
spufs.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
squashfs.txt Squashfs: Update documentation to include xattrs 2011-12-30 01:20:24 +00:00
sysfs-pci.txt PCI: Allow read/write access to sysfs I/O port resources 2010-07-30 09:32:08 -07:00
sysfs-tagging.txt doc: Fix typo in doucmentations 2013-07-25 12:34:15 +02:00
sysfs.txt sysfs: propagate umode_t 2012-01-03 22:55:03 -05:00
sysv-fs.txt [PATCH] fs/sysv/: doc cleanup 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
tmpfs.txt mempolicy: document cpuset interaction with tmpfs mpol mount option 2010-05-25 08:06:57 -07:00
ubifs.txt UBIFS: switch self-check knobs to debugfs 2011-07-04 10:54:28 +03:00
udf.txt udf: implement mode and dmode mounting options 2009-04-02 12:29:50 +02:00
ufs.txt [PATCH] ufs2 write: mount as rw 2007-02-12 09:48:40 -08:00
vfat.txt Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt: fix directory entry example 2013-11-13 12:09:32 +09:00
vfs.txt vfs: improve i_op->atomic_open() documentation 2013-09-16 19:17:24 -04:00
xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt xfs: add metadata CRC documentation 2013-04-27 13:27:43 -05:00
xfs.txt doc: filesystems : Fix typo in Documentations/filesystems 2013-08-20 13:45:56 +02:00
xip.txt DOC: update xip method info 2008-11-12 17:17:17 -08:00