RFC: Zone-based memory statistics

"Craig Small" <[email protected]> ("csmall") Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:32:50 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.procps.devel
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Hello All,
  I'm looking into providing a new procps tool that displays
information from /proc/zoneinfo.

I have opened issue 344
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/issues/344 for comments, mainly
because its easier to track them in an issue.

free is great for an overall view, but sometimes looking at the zones
is required. Is all the memory on that idle CPU on a NUMA host; or is
the only memory left the slower high mem? Questions like that are what
I'm hoping this new tool will answer.

Part of this will hopefully answer why the Available stat in free says
everything is fine, but you're having memory issues somewhere.

 - Craig


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