Neil Gunton wrote:
> Sorry to bother you again, but I want to make sure that I am reading
> this right. This is the output from the 'free' command:
>
> [root@server /root]# free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 516952 503816 13136 59912 87784 335176
> -/+ buffers/cache: 80856 436096
> Swap: 1028120 680 1027440
>
> Does this look ok? I am thinking that maybe the big "used" memory number
> is simply being used for cache (the large cache number hints at this).
yes. linux and many other unices and unix like OS's use memory dynamically.
since there is plenty of memory, it uses it for cache - which is a good thing.
if u load more processes and it runs out of memory, it will decrease the cache.
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