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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Free memory issue
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:54:04
Message-Id: h69kj6$s17$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Free memory issue by Raul Gonzales
1 On 08/16/2009 09:41 PM, Raul Gonzales wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > I wonder what is going on with my system. I have a 2G of physical RAM
5 > but even without any major activity output of free,vmstat and top
6 > reports only ~64M free. Would any one know how to find more - ps doesn't
7 > show nothing wrong...
8 >
9 >
10 >
11 >
12 > free -m
13 > total used free shared buffers cached
14 > Mem: 1953 1888 65 0 143 1557
15 > -/+ buffers/cache: 187 1765
16 > Swap: 2055 0 2055
17
18 Er, I see 1765MB free here (187 used). It's the "-/+ buffers/cache"
19 line that reports free memory, NOT the first line.