Weird 'free' output

[Ori Idan]

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On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 9:21 PM Diego Iastrubni <diegoiast at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, May 4, 2021, 7:53 PM Ori Idan <ori at heliconbooks.com> wrote:
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>> Note that Linux tries to use available memory for cache, that is why free
>> memory seems small.
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>> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 2:48 PM linux.il <linux.il at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Omer, thank you!
>>> Is it related to the "Inactive" count from /proc/meminfo?
>>> I used to think that available=free+cache+buffers...
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 1:19 PM Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From man free:
>>>>
>>>> available
>>>>               Estimation of how much memory is available for starting
>>>> new applications, without swapping. Unlike the data provided  by
>>>>               the  cache  or free fields, this field takes into account
>>>> page cache and also that not all reclaimable memory slabs will
>>>>               be reclaimed due to items being in use (MemAvailable in
>>>> /proc/meminfo, available on kernels 3.14,  emulated  on  kernels
>>>>               2.6.27+, otherwise the same as free)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2021-05-04 at 13:07 +0300, linux.il wrote:
>>>> > "Available" output seems weird, or I'm missing something?
>>>> > Any ideas?
>>>> >
>>>> > TIA, Vitaly
>>>> >
>>>> > free -m
>>>> >               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache
>>>> > available
>>>> > Mem:          31654       29883         937           1         832
>>>> >     27675
>>>> > Swap:             0           0           0
>>>>
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