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>> OK, that's right. How can I find out if 4GB RAM (the current amount) |
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>> is enough? From what I understand of how Linux handles memory, it |
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>> will fill it up as quickly as possible, and then free it as necessary. |
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>> This makes it difficult to determine how much RAM is necessary from |
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>> watching top. |
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> Use free to see how much of the memory is used by buffers and caches. |
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Thank you Neil. On one of my systems, does this tell me that although |
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I'm using ~952MB, I'm really only using ~474MB and I don't need swap: |
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# free |
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total used free shared buffers cached |
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Mem: 1028780 952240 76540 0 146984 330516 |
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-/+ buffers/cache: 474740 554040 |
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Swap: 2008116 80944 1927172 |
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- Grant |