How is MemAvailable calculated?

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Issue

  • What is MemAvailable in /proc/meminfo or available in the output of free command?
  • How the value is calculated inside the kernel?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • kernel-4.18.0-240.el8

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