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139 files changed, 2902 insertions, 2512 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 22d89aa3721..8533f5f9bb2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -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 diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 1fbd4eb7b64..9f5481bdc5a 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - numa_zonelist_order - oom_dump_tasks - oom_kill_allocating_task +- overcommit_kbytes - overcommit_memory - overcommit_ratio - page-cluster @@ -574,6 +575,17 @@ The default value is 0. ============================================================== +overcommit_kbytes: + +When overcommit_memory is set to 2, the committed address space is not |