Thanks for then info, so that means than in this case i have about 784MB
free memory, that would make more sense :)
/Søren
Andy Green wrote:
Søren Neigaard wrote:
Ok, this gives me:
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total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1033684 1008540 25144 0 210324 548616
-/+ buffers/cache: 249600 784084
Swap: 3156680 696 3155984
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Hm but..? Does this mean my system, running almost nothing, uses almost
all my physical memory?
Top and free are showing the same information. The answer to your
question is that "buffers" and "cached" reflect temporary usage of
'spare' memory. A rough idea of how much memory is unallocated is
free + buffers + cached
- free is just sitting there totally unused
- buffers is something to do with storage space for data going to a
block device (?) anyway it is temporary allocation that can be kicked to
free up the memory
- cached is recently seen data from a block device that is kept around
in case it is needed again... it's totally lose-able to get the memory
free again if it is needed for something else.
-Andy
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