Hello Michal, Am 09.09.19 um 10:27 schrieb Michal Hocko: > On Fri 06-09-19 12:08:31, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote: >> These are the biggest differences in meminfo before and after cached >> starts to drop. I didn't expect cached end up in MemFree. >> >> Before: >> MemTotal: 16423116 kB >> MemFree: 374572 kB >> MemAvailable: 5633816 kB >> Cached: 5550972 kB >> Inactive: 4696580 kB >> Inactive(file): 3624776 kB >> >> >> After: >> MemTotal: 16423116 kB >> MemFree: 3477168 kB >> MemAvailable: 6066916 kB >> Cached: 2724504 kB >> Inactive: 1854740 kB >> Inactive(file): 950680 kB >> >> Any explanation? > > Do you have more snapshots of /proc/vmstat as suggested by Vlastimil and > me earlier in this thread? Seeing the overall progress would tell us > much more than before and after. Or have I missed this data? I needed to wait until today to grab again such a situation but from what i know it is very clear that MemFree is low and than the kernel starts to drop the chaches. Attached you'll find two log files. Greets, Stefan