Jan-Rens Reitsma <[email protected]> writes: > $ free -h > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 3.7G 3.5G 182M 153M 363M 2.1G > -/+ buffers/cache: 1.0G 2.7G > Swap: 7.6G 0B 7.6G > > 3.5 GB used of 3.7 GB available memory, > with 2.1 GB available for caching and 182 MB free, > 1.0 GB of the available cache and memory is used, > no swap space used.
That's not a correct interpretation of the output of "free". What that output says is that 3.5GB is used, but of that, 363MB + 2.1GB = 2.5GB is currently being used for buffers and cache. The memory used for buffers and cache can be made available very quickly, so the second line shows how much is used (1.0GB) and free (2.7GB) with the buffer and cache usage ignored. So the real thing to take away from the above is in the second line: only 1.0GB is used and 2.7GB is free. See http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/33541/free-output-format/33549#33549 Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
