On Thu Mar 14 20:38 +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> All memory not actually used by applications is automatically used as 
> hard disk cache. As soon as you load more programs the cache gets 
> smaller and when you close programs and access your hard disk afterwards 
> the cache gets bigger again. "free" does not distinguish between "real" 
> memory occupation and cache memory occupation. Some other programs (I 
> don't remember which) do.

Doesn't free have that line "-/+ buffers/cache" ?

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