>Can anybody please explain this? I don't have X running on this machine. I am
>showing the output of top sorted by memory usage here. Why is free showing
>120MB used??
>
>I am observing this on all the three LM8.0 machines that I have and this
>could be serious. Am I missing something here?
>
>Thanks in advance
>sarang
>
>
>
>[root@vv17 /root]# free
> total used free shared buffers cached
>Mem: 899952 556784 343168 0 170032 265936
>-/+ buffers/cache: 120816 779136
>Swap: 1791208 118408 1672800
>[root@vv17 /root]#
>
>[root@vx17 /root]# cat /proc/meminfo
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
>Mem: 921550848 570155008 351395840 0 174112768 272318464
>Swap: 1834196992 121249792 1712947200
>MemTotal: 899952 kB
>MemFree: 343160 kB
>MemShared: 0 kB
>Buffers: 170032 kB
>Cached: 265936 kB
>Active: 7248 kB
>Inact_dirty: 426376 kB
>Inact_clean: 2344 kB
>Inact_target: 4 kB
>HighTotal: 0 kB
>HighFree: 0 kB
>LowTotal: 899952 kB
>LowFree: 343160 kB
>SwapTotal: 1791208 kB
>SwapFree: 1672800 kB
>
>---------------------------------------------
>Sarang Lakare
>
>http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~lsarang
>http://www.linux.org
I'd like to see if its the same in runlevel 1. I'm on Red Hat 7.1
(couldn't install LM8) and memory usage is through the roof.....
-Wes Yates
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