'{print $3}' used
'{print $4}' available
right ?
2011/4/8 Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
>
> It should be '{print $3}'.
>
>
> $ free -m
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 8059 6249 1810 0 20 3485
> -/+ buffers/cache: 2743 5316
> Swap: 15624 139 15485
>
>
> $ free -m | grep buffers/cache | awk '{print $3}'
> 2743
>
>
>
> On 04/08/2011 03:59 PM, Fabio DellaCorte wrote:
>
>> So i think the correct thing to do is "free -m | grep buffers/cache | awk
>> '{print $4}" is right for me to place a warning system that monitors the
>> RAM
>> .
>>
>> 2011/4/8 Ron Johnson<[email protected]>
>>
>>
>>> The actual "used by kernel+applications" is, I think, 371.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/08/2011 02:53 PM, Fabio DellaCorte wrote:
>>>
>>> OK! Thank you for the explanations. But raising this case, what is the
>>>> parameter to be controlled? And compared to the controls I mentioned
>>>> above which
>>>> of the two actually fit the occupation of RAM ?
>>>> 2011/4/8 Stan Hoeppner<[email protected]>
>>>>
>>>> Fabio DellaCorte put forth on 4/8/2011 12:13 PM:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> root@debian-cq2:/etc/pandora# free -m
>>>>>> total used free shared buffers
>>>>>> cached
>>>>>> Mem: 8006 790 7215 0 210
>>>>>> 208
>>>>>> -/+ buffers/cache: 371 7634
>>>>>> Swap: 22883 2 22881
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> You have 7GB+ free out of 8GB. And you're concerned with memory usage?
>>>>> LOL
>>>>>
>>>>> Why do you have 20GB of swap? Given your memory usage, assuming the
>>>>> above is "typical", and the fact you have 8GB RAM, I'm going to guess
>>>>> you could likely get by with no swap device at all.
>>>>>
>>>>> You have nothing to worry about. Unless of course this is an "idle"
>>>>> state, and you run some gargantuan simulation app that eats all 8GB
>>>>> when
>>>>> launched. I doubt that's the case, as you'd not be asking this
>>>>> question
>>>>> if you used such an app.
>>>>>
>>>>> From what you've provided, you don't need to worry about memory.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>> "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure
>>> the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally
>>> corrupt."
>>> Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749
>>>
>>>
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> corrupt."
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