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Apparently, though unproven, at 12:37 on Sunday 19 September 2010, Al did |
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opine thusly: |
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> > free -m |
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> > total used free shared buffers cached |
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> > Mem: 3754 3588 165 0 57 258 |
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> 3588 of 3754 is free, AFAIK not used at all. Plug off 3500 and sell it. |
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> If your system is slow maybe from managing all that unusued memory. ;-) |
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> Al |
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I think someone needs to go study how linux memory management works, and what |
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buffers and cache really are |
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RULE NUMBER ONE OF LINUX MEMORY: |
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SUPERFICIAL UTILITIES LIKE free WILL *ALWAYS* REPORT ALMOST ALL MEMORY IN USE. |
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REASON: IT *IS* IN USE. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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