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Add "Buffers" from /proc/meminfo in parse_meminfo_file to determine available memory #7120

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srh opened this issue Jun 13, 2023 · 0 comments

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srh commented Jun 13, 2023

Right now we add the "MemFree" lines and "Cached" lines together -- I think we should also add the "Buffered" line.

For example, this is what my machine's memory usage looked like: The blue is the "Buffered" memory taking a bunch of space
Screenshot from 2023-06-12 18-55-27

This might be because I had processes writing a large volume of data to a disk, a rotational drive, even, and then, for all I know, Linux keeps those file pages in the buffered category, not the page cache category, until the page gets accessed again.

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