Date:   Thu, 23 Feb 2023 09:30:53 -0800
From:   Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
To:     Matthew Chae <Matthew.Chae@axis.com>
Cc:     Michal =?iso-8859-1?Q?Koutn=FD?= <mkoutny@suse.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/memcontrol: add memory.peak in cgroup root
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 04:22:33PM +0000, Matthew Chae wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> First off, thank you for sharing your opinion.
> I'd like to monitor the peak memory usage recorded of overall system or at least cgroup accounted memory through memory.peak.
> But it looks like this is not relevant to what I wanted.
> It might be good to have some proper way for checking the system's peak memory usage recorded.

I guess you might want to do the opposite: instead of tracking the peak usage,
you can record the bottom of available free memory.

Thanks!