Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Memory usage; 32 bit vs 64 bit.
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:02:56
Message-Id: 4D22752D.1010107@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Memory usage; 32 bit vs 64 bit. by Mark Knecht
1 Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >> Alex Alexander wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> Are you sure you're checking your free ram correctly? run "free" and check
7 >>> the buffers/cache line :)
8 >>>
9 >>> Alex | wired | sent from my i4
10 >>>
11 >>>
12 >>>
13 >> Yea, I don't count caches and buffers. After being up a few days, it uses
14 >> almost all the ram with those included. Here is the output of free tho:
15 >>
16 >> root@fireball / # free
17 >> total used free shared buffers cached
18 >> Mem: 4055816 3413320 642496 0 540172 1093420
19 >> -/+ buffers/cache: 1779728 2276088
20 >> Swap: 979960 148 979812
21 >> root@fireball / #
22 >>
23 >>
24 >> That was just taken and I been logged in for a day or so.
25 >>
26 >> Dale
27 >>
28 > When you have a chance reboot the machine and try it again. Don't run
29 > any apps, open a terminal and run free.
30 >
31 > I just rebooted. Here's what I see before running any apps:
32 >
33 > mark@c2stable ~ $ free
34 > total used free shared buffers cached
35 > Mem: 12303060 462120 11840940 0 12412 178712
36 > -/+ buffers/cache: 270996 12032064
37 > Swap: 12602976 0 12602976
38 > mark@c2stable ~ $
39 >
40 > It doesn't drop much running Firefox to send this email:
41 >
42 > mark@c2stable ~ $ free
43 > total used free shared buffers cached
44 > Mem: 12303060 655776 11647284 0 13824 230160
45 > -/+ buffers/cache: 411792 11891268
46 > Swap: 12602976 0 12602976
47 > mark@c2stable ~ $
48 >
49 >
50 > Cheers,
51 > Mark
52 >
53 >
54
55 I don't reboot much. I been up for a while. I finally got me a good
56 stable kernel build so the next reboot could be a while off. I could go
57 single user for a bit tho.
58
59 Dale
60
61 :-) :-)