查看“/proc/meminfo内存信息说明”的源代码

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[root@iZ8vbcjkeqbrdmmbt23vboZ ~]# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        1881892 kB
MemFree:           87212 kB
MemAvailable:     860688 kB
Buffers:           69228 kB
Cached:           836260 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:          1044980 kB
Inactive:         569368 kB
Active(anon):     751432 kB
Inactive(anon):     8892 kB
Active(file):     293548 kB
Inactive(file):   560476 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
SwapTotal:             0 kB
SwapFree:              0 kB
Dirty:                 0 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:        708880 kB
Mapped:           129696 kB
Shmem:             51464 kB
Slab:             120676 kB
SReclaimable:     101232 kB
SUnreclaim:        19444 kB
KernelStack:        3680 kB
PageTables:         8728 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:      940944 kB
Committed_AS:    2566620 kB
VmallocTotal:   34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:        9016 kB
VmallocChunk:   34359724540 kB
HardwareCorrupted:     0 kB
AnonHugePages:    149504 kB
CmaTotal:              0 kB
CmaFree:               0 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
DirectMap4k:       69504 kB
DirectMap2M:     2027520 kB
DirectMap1G:           0 kB

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=== MemTotal： ===
所有可用的内存大小，物理内存减去预留位和内核使用。系统从加电开始到引导完成，firmware/BIOS要预留一些内存，内核本身要占用一些内存，最后剩下可供内核支配的内存就是MemTotal。这个值在系统运行期间一般是固定不变的，重启会改变。