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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-03-14 09:48:07 +1300 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-03-14 10:47:52 +1300 |
| commit | 8b4b1f6803ea70fe7093db1a030086f294f7fb16 (patch) | |
| tree | 8bd72c6791bc1d415597e86574ee166ef1a1104e | |
| parent | 43179f55eafb75d5d1311212ddd200ad937febe3 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-8b4b1f6803ea70fe7093db1a030086f294f7fb16.tar.gz | |
proc.5: Document MemAvailable /proc/meminfo field
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index 482cee1938..045e4643f1 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -2665,6 +2665,10 @@ bits and the kernel binary code). The sum of .IR LowFree + HighFree . .TP +.IR MemAvailable " %lu (since Linux 3.14)" +An estimate of how much memory is available for starting new +applications, without swapping. +.TP .IR Buffers " %lu" Relatively temporary storage for raw disk blocks that shouldn't get tremendously large (20MB or so). |