proc.5: Document MemAvailable /proc/meminfo field

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -2665,6 +2665,10 @@ bits and the kernel binary code).
The sum of
.IR LowFree + HighFree .
.TP
.IR MemAvailable " %lu (since Linux 3.14)"
An estimate of how much memory is available for starting new
applications, without swapping.
.TP
.IR Buffers " %lu"
Relatively temporary storage for raw disk blocks that
shouldn't get tremendously large (20MB or so).