[systemd-devel] Memory in systemctl status

[Reindl Harald]

Am 28.09.20 um 10:37 schrieb Tomasz Torcz:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 10:08:15AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 27.09.20 um 23:39 schrieb Benjamin Berg:
>>>>>> however, that value makes little to no sense and if that's the same
>>>>>> value as accounted for "MemoryMax" it's plain wrong
>>> But it does make sense. File caches are part of the working set of
>>> memory that a process needs. Setting MemoryMax=/MemoryMin=
>>> limits/guarantees the size of this working set. These kinds of limits
>>> or protections would be a lot less meaningful if caches were not
>>> accounted for.
>>
>> sorry but that is complete nosense
>>
>> caches are freed as soon whatever process asks for RAM and so they are
>> *not* part of the working set
>>
>> my webserver is killed because it served at monday, tuesday, thursday
>> and friday 4 different files with 2 GB?
> 
> Why "killed", you wrote yourself caches are freed. So are they freed
> or aren't they?

if i would set "MemoryMax" to 4G "Memory: 8.6G" would kill it when the
caches are accounted in that context

why should the caches be freed as long as no other process allocates memory?

"These kinds of limits or protections would be a lot less meaningful if
caches were not accounted for" is nonsense - os caches are part of the
VFS and have nothing to do with protect from a process allocating 10 GB
private memory which can't be freed other than swap it out