* [pbs-devel] [PATCH sys 1/2] sys: procfs: split read_meminfo into read and parse functions
@ 2025-03-13 11:45 Dietmar Maurer
2025-03-13 11:45 ` [pbs-devel] [PATCH sys 2/2] sys: procfs: read_meminfo: use MemAvailable from kernel to compute memused Dietmar Maurer
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From: Dietmar Maurer @ 2025-03-13 11:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pbs-devel
So that we can write tests.
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>
---
proxmox-sys/src/linux/procfs/mod.rs | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/proxmox-sys/src/linux/procfs/mod.rs b/proxmox-sys/src/linux/procfs/mod.rs
index 0875fcf8..f9dbb5bc 100644
--- a/proxmox-sys/src/linux/procfs/mod.rs
+++ b/proxmox-sys/src/linux/procfs/mod.rs
@@ -416,8 +416,12 @@ pub struct ProcFsMemInfo {
pub fn read_meminfo() -> Result<ProcFsMemInfo, Error> {
let path = "/proc/meminfo";
- let file = OpenOptions::new().read(true).open(path)?;
+ let meminfo_str = std::fs::read_to_string(path)?;
+ parse_proc_meminfo(&meminfo_str)
+}
+
+fn parse_proc_meminfo(text: &str) -> Result<ProcFsMemInfo, Error> {
let mut meminfo = ProcFsMemInfo {
memtotal: 0,
memfree: 0,
@@ -429,9 +433,8 @@ pub fn read_meminfo() -> Result<ProcFsMemInfo, Error> {
};
let (mut buffers, mut cached) = (0, 0);
- for line in BufReader::new(&file).lines() {
- let content = line?;
- let mut content_iter = content.split_whitespace();
+ for line in text.lines() {
+ let mut content_iter = line.split_whitespace();
if let (Some(key), Some(value)) = (content_iter.next(), content_iter.next()) {
match key {
"MemTotal:" => meminfo.memtotal = value.parse::<u64>()? * 1024,
--
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* [pbs-devel] [PATCH sys 2/2] sys: procfs: read_meminfo: use MemAvailable from kernel to compute memused
2025-03-13 11:45 [pbs-devel] [PATCH sys 1/2] sys: procfs: split read_meminfo into read and parse functions Dietmar Maurer
@ 2025-03-13 11:45 ` Dietmar Maurer
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From: Dietmar Maurer @ 2025-03-13 11:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pbs-devel
The current code does not consider "SReclaimable" as cached memory,
which can lead to totally wrong values for memfree/memused.
This fix uses MemAvailable to compute memused, and returns MemFree
without adding buffers and caches. This corrensponds to the
values displayed by the "free" command line tool (total, used, free, avilable),
where used+available=total.
The value for buffers+cache can be estimated with: available - free
Also adds a simple test case for the parser.
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>
---
proxmox-sys/src/linux/procfs/mod.rs | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 80 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/proxmox-sys/src/linux/procfs/mod.rs b/proxmox-sys/src/linux/procfs/mod.rs
index f9dbb5bc..46452d8f 100644
--- a/proxmox-sys/src/linux/procfs/mod.rs
+++ b/proxmox-sys/src/linux/procfs/mod.rs
@@ -432,24 +432,29 @@ fn parse_proc_meminfo(text: &str) -> Result<ProcFsMemInfo, Error> {
swapused: 0,
};
- let (mut buffers, mut cached) = (0, 0);
+ let mut available = 0;
+
for line in text.lines() {
let mut content_iter = line.split_whitespace();
if let (Some(key), Some(value)) = (content_iter.next(), content_iter.next()) {
match key {
"MemTotal:" => meminfo.memtotal = value.parse::<u64>()? * 1024,
"MemFree:" => meminfo.memfree = value.parse::<u64>()? * 1024,
+ "MemAvailable:" => available = value.parse::<u64>()? * 1024,
"SwapTotal:" => meminfo.swaptotal = value.parse::<u64>()? * 1024,
"SwapFree:" => meminfo.swapfree = value.parse::<u64>()? * 1024,
- "Buffers:" => buffers = value.parse::<u64>()? * 1024,
- "Cached:" => cached = value.parse::<u64>()? * 1024,
_ => continue,
}
}
}
- meminfo.memfree += buffers + cached;
- meminfo.memused = meminfo.memtotal - meminfo.memfree;
+ // see free.c and meminfo.h from https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps
+ // Note: USED+FREE != TOTAL (USED+FREE+BUFFER+CACHED+SRECLAIMABLE == TOTAL)
+
+ meminfo.memused = meminfo.memtotal - available;
+
+ // Available memory is: meminfo.memtotal - meminfo.memused
+ // Buffers + CACHE = meminfo.memtotal - meminfo.memused - meminfo.free
meminfo.swapused = meminfo.swaptotal - meminfo.swapfree;
@@ -462,6 +467,76 @@ fn parse_proc_meminfo(text: &str) -> Result<ProcFsMemInfo, Error> {
Ok(meminfo)
}
+#[test]
+fn test_read_proc_meminfo() {
+ let meminfo = parse_proc_meminfo(
+ "MemTotal: 32752584 kB
+MemFree: 2106048 kB
+MemAvailable: 13301592 kB
+Buffers: 0 kB
+Cached: 490072 kB
+SwapCached: 0 kB
+Active: 658700 kB
+Inactive: 59528 kB
+Active(anon): 191996 kB
+Inactive(anon): 49880 kB
+Active(file): 466704 kB
+Inactive(file): 9648 kB
+Unevictable: 16008 kB
+Mlocked: 12936 kB
+SwapTotal: 3 kB
+SwapFree: 2 kB
+Zswap: 0 kB
+Zswapped: 0 kB
+Dirty: 0 kB
+Writeback: 0 kB
+AnonPages: 244204 kB
+Mapped: 66032 kB
+Shmem: 9960 kB
+KReclaimable: 11525744 kB
+Slab: 21002876 kB
+SReclaimable: 11525744 kB
+SUnreclaim: 9477132 kB
+KernelStack: 6816 kB
+PageTables: 4812 kB
+SecPageTables: 0 kB
+NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
+Bounce: 0 kB
+WritebackTmp: 0 kB
+CommitLimit: 16376292 kB
+Committed_AS: 316368 kB
+VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
+VmallocUsed: 983836 kB
+VmallocChunk: 0 kB
+Percpu: 12096 kB
+HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB
+AnonHugePages: 0 kB
+ShmemHugePages: 0 kB
+ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB
+FileHugePages: 0 kB
+FilePmdMapped: 0 kB
+Unaccepted: 0 kB
+HugePages_Total: 0
+HugePages_Free: 0
+HugePages_Rsvd: 0
+HugePages_Surp: 0
+Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
+Hugetlb: 0 kB
+DirectMap4k: 237284 kB
+DirectMap2M: 13281280 kB
+DirectMap1G: 22020096 kB
+",
+ )
+ .expect("successful parsed a sample /proc/meminfo entry");
+
+ assert_eq!(meminfo.memtotal, 33538646016);
+ assert_eq!(meminfo.memused, 19917815808);
+ assert_eq!(meminfo.memfree, 2156593152);
+ assert_eq!(meminfo.swapfree, 2048);
+ assert_eq!(meminfo.swaptotal, 3072);
+ assert_eq!(meminfo.swapused, 1024);
+}
+
#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
pub struct ProcFsCPUInfo {
pub user_hz: f64,
--
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