library: properly handle memory used by tmpfs
tmpfs has become much more widely used since distributions use it for /tmp (Fedora 18+). In /proc/meminfo, memory used by tmpfs is accounted into "Cached" (aka "NR_FILE_PAGES", http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/mm/shmem.c#L301 ). The tools just pass it on, so what top, free and vmstat report as "cached" is the sum of page cache and tmpfs. free has the extremely useful "-/+ buffers/cache" output. However, now that tmpfs is accounted into "cached", those numbers are way off once you have big files in /tmp. Fortunately, kernel 2.6.32 introduces "Shmem", which makes tmpfs memory usage accessible from userspace ( https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4b02108ac1b3354a22b0d83c684797692efdc395 ). This patch substracts Shmem from Cached to get the actual page cache memory. This makes both issues mentioned above disappear. For older kernels, Shmem is not available (hence zero) and this patch is no-op. Additionally: * Update the man pages of free and vmstat to explain what is happening * Finally drop "MemShared" from the /proc/meminfo parser, it has been dead for 10+ years and is only causing confusion ( removed in kernel 2.5.54, see https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/?id=fe04e9451e5a159247cf9f03c615a4273ac0c571 )
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swpd: the amount of virtual memory used.
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free: the amount of idle memory.
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buff: the amount of memory used as buffers.
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cache: the amount of memory used as cache.
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cache: the amount of memory used as cache (excluding tmpfs memory for
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kernels 2.6.32+)
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inact: the amount of inactive memory. (\-a option)
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active: the amount of active memory. (\-a option)
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.fi
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