> > Is it possible to extent those statistic to include buffer/cache values? > > Yes, should be possible but the kernel virtio-balloon driver has to be > extended too (and I suspect this kind of change goes into the kernel first).
The current statistics are quite useless without that information, and I guess it is impossible to such changes upstream within a reasonable time? So what is the purpose of that 'stat-free-memory'? Can we change that to return the amount of free RAM including buffers?