Re: [Watchdog-devel] min-memory disregards buffer and cache

On 17/01/2021 22:09, Nils Toedtmann wrote:
> Since when does watchdog's "min-memory" account for buffers & cache as
> per
> https://www.crawford-space.co.uk/old_psc/watchdog/watchdog-configure.html#Memory_Test
> ?
> 
> Was it commit a0cf26 from 2019/07/09 "Compute usable memory from
> free+buffers+cache", so 5.16? And older versions just use MemFree from
> /proc/meminfo
> 
> Just checking what I need to upgrade to :-D

After some dumbing down of debian/{control,rules}, I managed to upgrade
to 5.15, but (as expected) that has the same issue. So it looks like I
do need indeed 5.16. Unfortunately that version is much trickier to
build as a debian package on my old system (no SystemD, no
debhelper-compat).

Instead, I might resort to a 'test-binary' script to do that check.

Best, Nils



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