Hi I want to write a script to find free memory available for use by applications. The following is the output of 'free' command in one of our lab machines. total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3804 3706 98 0 107 3488 -/+ buffers/cache: 110 3694 Swap: 996 0 996 Total: 4801 3706 1094 Most of the physical memory has been allocated to Memory cache. Should i consider this memory while calculating free memory assuming that Kernel decreases memory given to cache and buffers and increases memory for use by applications when ever they need more memory. Is the below calculation valid? Total Free Memory Available for Applications = free + buffers + cached Thanks, Shashank -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines