> > This memory will be reclaimed when the system needs it.
>
> Does this mean that free and /proc/meminfo are incorrect?
By its own definition proc/meminfo is correct. top could go rummaging in
/proc/slabinfo but its questionable if it is meaningful to do so. The
actually "out of memory" case for a virtual memory system is not "no
memory pages free" nor "no memory or swap free" its closer to "working
set plus i/o buffers exceeds memory size".
That isnt something as easy to visualise or compute as "free"
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