I tend to run a test program on an otherwise idle node, allocating (and actually using!) more and more memory, and then see when it starts swapping. I typically end up with between 1 and 1.5 GiB less than what "free" reports as the total memory.
-- Regards, Bjørn-Helge Mevik, dr. scient, Department for Research Computing, University of Oslo
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